IANA Blackhole Application

The following page provides details on domains, networks, IPs, hosting services, and content delivery networks used by IANA Blackhole.

What is IANA Blackhole?

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IANA Blackhole - Technology
Blackhole servers to detect private addresses on the public Internet. Certain addresses (e.g. 192.168.x.x) should never appear on the public internet. If you see this traffic, please investigate DNS on your network. It's always DNS.


IANA Blackhole Domains

Primary Domains

  • prisoner.iana.org
  • blackhole-1.iana.org
  • blackhole-2.iana.org
  • and 2 more

Primary Hostnames

IP Hostname
192.31.196.1 blackhole.as112.arpa
192.175.48.1 prisoner.iana.org
192.175.48.6 blackhole-1.iana.org
192.175.48.42 blackhole-2.iana.org
2001:4:112::1 blackhole.as112.arpa
2620:4f:8000::1 prisoner.iana.org
2620:4f:8000::6 blackhole-1.iana.org
2620:4f:8000::42 blackhole-2.iana.org