Hello. I just want to know what is going on with this IP. I understand where the fios.verizon.net comes fron. However the pool and washdc parts confuse me. I see the ip address, have looked it up and it says that this particular IP is for a device in Virginia. I searched using whois on networktools.com. My question is, what is the pool and washdc parts of the url. Also considering this is FTP traffic, is this device an ftp server hosted by verizon, and if it is how do i find out who is responcible for the traffic coming from it. Thank you for your time. asked 01 Jun '17, 00:02  eldenmac99 |
One Answer:
In fact, it's probably in Northern Virginia, as per the "washdc", as in "Washington, DC". "pool-100-36-132-90" probably means that it's a dynamically assigned IP address from Verizon's pool of addresses; the address is 100.36.132.90.
Not necessarily. It could be an FTP client. What sort of FTP control traffic (commands and responses, as opposed to data traffic) is coming from that host, and what sort of traffic is going to that host? If commands are coming from the host and responses are going to the host, it's an FTP client; if commands are going to the host and responses are coming from the host, it's an FTP server.
If it's a server - which I suspect it's not - it's probably not stored on one of Verizon's servers; it's probably stored on some Verizon customer's machine.
Ask Verizon who had that IP address during the times when you saw traffic to and from that host. "Dynamic" means it doesn't belong to a particular machine - it's temporarily assigned to that machine for some period of time, but that machine might get a different address assigned to it at another time. answered 01 Jun '17, 14:19  Guy Harris ♦♦ |
Thank you for the quick responce. You are right now that I think about it. My geological map is kinda crap (my mental one). It must have been aclient. They were sending commands in to the server as apposed to sending responces. When you say a verizon customer's machine, I asume you are refering to a customer who is serfing the internet through verizon as an ISP?
Yes.