Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at?

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r00ty@kbin.life ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Hmm. That would mean it's likely one of the following (well perhaps more options, but these spring to mind)

I think you suggested in another comment, that it's not in your DHCP client list but has an IP in your normal range. Which suggests it is setup with a static IP. That is odd.

Some other people suggested it could be a container that is using a real IP rather than the NAT that docker etc usually use. I do know that you can use real IPs in containers, I've done it on my NAS to get a "proper" linux install on top of the NAS lite linux that is provided. But I would have expected that you'd know about that, since it would require someone to actually choose the IP address to use.

If you have managed switches you could find which port on which switch the MAC address (as found by lookuping up the arp record for the IP using arp -a) is on (provided the switch allows access to the forwarding tables). Of course, if they're on Wi-Fi it's only going to lead to the access point they're connecting to.

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