162.249.4.1 — datacenter / hosting IP, not residential.

162.249.4.1 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.

162.249.4.1 is announced by AS55293 (A2 Hosting, Inc.), located in United States. The holder of the announced BGP prefix 162.249.0.0/21 is A2HOSTING - A2 Hosting, Inc.. You can look up other IPs on the same network via the IPLogs ASN directory.

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.

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.

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.

Hit our public API: `POST https://iplogs.com/v1/check` with body `{"ip":"162.249.4.1"}`. 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.