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How can I verify the ownership of an IP-address? - 26.26.26.x (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Recently discovered the following two addresses in my DNS-filter, 26.26.26.1 and 26.26.26.2. How can I confirm that these belong to? These are both public-ip addresses but seems to be owned by the US Military?

If I look at https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/26.26.26.2, it says it belongs to:

  • ISP: DoD Network Information Center
  • Type: Military
  • Country: US.

What does this mean? As far as I've researched, its got something to do with Socks protocol? This Github repo I found seems to be using it too, but why is it used? If anyone knows, id very much appreciate your help.

https://github.com/PeterCxy/SocksDroid/blob/master/app/src/main/groovy/net/typeblog/socks/SocksVpnService.groovy

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm a bit confused because it does show the block is assigned to the US military but it has a high fraud score so I wonder if it's leased or somehow being used by a bad actor. Also as you've already seen, some VPNs use it as a local IP like 192.168.1.1 for the VPN interface itself.