Is 17.253.144.10 a VPN?

17.253.144.10 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 17.253.144.10?

17.253.144.10 is announced by AS714 (Apple Inc.), located in United States. The holder of the announced BGP prefix 17.253.144.0/24 is APPLE-ENGINEERING - Apple Inc.. You can look up other IPs on the same network via the IPLogs ASN directory.

Should I block 17.253.144.10?

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 17.253.144.10 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 17.253.144.10 via API?

Hit our public API: `POST https://iplogs.com/v1/check` with body `{"ip":"17.253.144.10"}`. 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.

17.253.144.10 — datacenter / hosting IP, not residential.

IPv4 lookup

17.253.144.10

United StatesCupertinoAS714Apple Inc.

Suspicious

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

Threat Score

Network identity

ASN

AS714

Organization

Apple Inc.

Network type

Unknown

Location

United States

Cupertino

Coordinates

37.332, -122.011

Country code

BGP / prefix

Announced prefix

17.253.144.0/24

Holder

APPLE-ENGINEERING - Apple Inc.

This IP in /24256 addrs

Report abuse

Abuse contact

abuse@apple.com

Send abuse report

Detection signals · 7-layer pipeline

0.55

Weighted score · vpn-likely line 0.50

Summary

3 of 7 layers contributed evidence

3 signals matched · 1 strong source · verdict score 0.55

Protocol handshake+0.55

Shodan observation+0.00

ASN classification+0.00

§ 01

+0.55strong

Protocol handshake

Live OpenVPN, IKEv2, WireGuard, SOCKS5, and HTTP-CONNECT probes. Ground truth on positive.

Active probe http viastrong+0.55

Proxy-identifying header on 80: "Via: http/1.1 defra3-edge-bx-024.ts.apple.com (acdn/329.16654)"

+0.55

strong

§ 02

+0.00info

Shodan observation

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

Observed open portsinfo

Shodan has observed 2 open port(s) on this IP

+0.00

info

§ 03

+0.00info

ASN classification

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

Known CDN edgeinfo

ASN AS714 is a known pure-CDN edge (Apple) — datacenter and content-host signals suppressed

+0.00

info

Σ Total weighted score

0.55 / 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: Block. Whether it's an AWS exit serving as a personal VPN or a scraper, neither is your audience.

About IP address 17.253.144.10

17.253.144.10 is an IPv4 address routed via AS714 (Apple Inc.) and geo-located to United States. 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.

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