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.
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.