Is 156.146.34.1 a VPN?

156.146.34.1 is not a confirmed VPN, but it is a hosting / datacenter IP — almost certainly not a real residential consumer device. Common origins are scrapers, automated browsers, or self-hosted VPNs running on a VPS.

Who owns 156.146.34.1?

156.146.34.1 is announced by AS60068 (Datacamp Limited), located in Japan. The holder of the announced BGP prefix 156.146.34.0/23 is CDN77 Datacamp Limited. You can look up other IPs on the same network via the IPLogs ASN directory.

Should I block 156.146.34.1?

Yes for write traffic, no for read. Datacenter IPs are almost never real human users — block POSTs, throttle reads, but avoid hard 403s if you serve global traffic.

Is 156.146.34.1 safe?

Cautious. This IP isn't on any threat-intel feed today, but it isn't a regular consumer connection either. Don't grant it residential-tier trust.

Why is my IP flagged as suspicious?

If you visited iplogs.com from your own connection and were flagged suspicious, the cause is one of: a VPN client on your device or network, a corporate proxy, a CGNAT pool that overlaps with VPN exits, an ISP-level DNS resolver routing through Cloudflare/Apple infrastructure, or your IP being on a published commercial-VPN relay list. The "Why this IP is flagged" section above lists every source that matched — that's the dispute trail.

How do I check 156.146.34.1 via API?

Hit our public API: `POST https://iplogs.com/v1/check` with body `{"ip":"156.146.34.1"}`. You get back a JSON verdict, score 0–1, every matched signal, ASN/geo info, and the full provenance list. Free, no signup, no API key. See /docs for client examples in curl, Python, Node.js and Go.

156.146.34.1 — datacenter / hosting IP, not residential.

IPv4 lookup

156.146.34.1

JapanShibuya CityAS60068Datacamp Limited

Suspicious

Weak hosting-network indicators — 4 signals matched across 3 intelligence sources. high confidence in this reading.

Threat Score

Network identity

ASN

AS60068

Organization

Datacamp Limited

Network type

datacenter

Location

Japan

Shibuya City

Coordinates

35.676, 139.650

Country code

BGP / prefix

Announced prefix

156.146.34.0/23

Holder

CDN77 Datacamp Limited

This IP in /23512 addrs

Report abuse

Abuse contact

abuse@datacamp.co.uk

Send abuse report

Detection signals · 7-layer pipeline

0.40

Weighted score · vpn-likely line 0.50

Summary

3 of 7 layers contributed evidence

4 signals matched · 0 strong sources · verdict score 0.40

ASN classification+0.30

IP intelligence+0.10

Shodan observation+0.00

§ 01

+0.30moderate

ASN classification

Team Cymru allocation data + PeeringDB self-declared network type.

PeeringDB: content/cloudmoderate+0.20

PeeringDB classifies ASN AS60068 as "Content" — content/cloud-hosting profile

Datacenter facilitiesinfo+0.10

ASN AS60068 present in 91 public datacenter facilities

+0.30

moderate

§ 02

+0.10info

IP intelligence

Matches against the Tor exit list, public proxy feeds, curated VPN-provider ranges, and datacenter ASN registries.

Datacenter IPinfo+0.10

Datacenter / hosting ASN AS60068 (Datacamp Limited)

+0.10

info

§ 03

+0.00info

Shodan observation

Passive ~30-day port fingerprint. VPN/proxy software CPE matches and observed ports.

Observed open portsinfo

Shodan has observed 1 open port(s) on this IP

+0.00

info

Σ Total weighted score

0.40 / 1.00

Should I block this IP?

Practical guidance by use case — fraud, ad-ops, streaming, and general websites.

Datacenter / hosting IP — not a real residential user

This IP belongs to a hosting provider (AWS, GCP, Vultr, OVH, DigitalOcean, etc.). It's not a confirmed VPN, but it's also not a real consumer device. Common origins: scrapers, server-side fetches, automated browsers, self-hosted VPNs (Algo / WireGuard / OpenVPN on a VPS).

Fraud / risk teams: Treat as bot-tier traffic by default. Real customers rarely connect from datacenter IPs — when they do, it's almost always a self-hosted VPN. Step-up auth is the right call.
Ad ops / programmatic: Filter from billable inventory. Datacenter IPs serving display ads are essentially never real users.
Streaming / geo-licensing

About IP address 156.146.34.1

156.146.34.1 is an IPv4 address routed via AS60068 (Datacamp Limited) and geo-located to Japan. The verdict above combines six free, no-auth intelligence sources: local db-ip ASN data, the Tor Project exit list, public proxy feeds (TheSpeedX / Proxifly / FireHOL), Team Cymru + PeeringDB for ASN classification, RIPE NCC for BGP topology and abuse contacts, and Shodan InternetDB for ~30-day port observation.

Verdicts are recomputed on every page load and cached for up to one hour upstream. No data about your browser or identity is persisted.