cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14131393
Recently discovered the following two addresses in my DNS-filter,
26.26.26.1and26.26.26.2. 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.
While it’s assigned public address, it’s only used inside the private DoD military network. Try tracerouting to that address space, you’ll see that your packets go nowhere.
Using dod address space in your vpn service means you will never conflict with the RFC 1918 private IPv4 addresses people use at home.
https://blog.erratasec.com/2013/12/dod-address-space-its-not-conspiracy.html
Very interesting, had no idea this was a thing! Thanks for sharing.