cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14131393

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

  • crawancon@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    apps and things set their address space to use DOD ranges all the time. accidentally and on purpose. neither are 100% nefarious. 26’s were once used by shadowsocks.

    • Lunch@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Ah I wasnt not aware, the link provided by @anamethatisnt, seems to have cleared this up too!