Unrecognized hosts

athenian — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:58:59 GMT

Hello. I see in the domain stats that a substantial amount of entries are related to

152.211.71.52.in-addr.arpa

DoD Network Information Center (DNIC)

141.183.221.3.in-addr.arpa

Headquarters, USAISC (HEADQU-3)

As these seem to be military sites and I do not know why I am resolving to them.

Any ideas?

Re: Unrecognized hosts

rotblitz — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:38:02 GMT

These are reverse DNS lookups, i.e. obtaining the hostnames for the IP addresses 52.71.211.154 and 3.221.183.141. I do not know either why an app in your network raises these DNS lookups. But it looks like the destinations are on Amazon AWS.

nslookup 52.71.211.154
Server:  local
Address:  10.1.1.1

Name:    ec2-52-71-211-154.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Address:  52.71.211.154


nslookup 3.221.183.141
Server: local
Address: 10.1.1.1

Name:    ec2-3-221-183-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Address:  3.221.183.141

No idea why you think that these are military destinations.

https://52.71.211.154/login leads to a login page for an analytics service.

https://3.221.183.141/ leads to another website which has no document at this URL (HTTP error 404).

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Unrecognized hosts

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