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As the title says I'm curious as to the type of address this is as its clearly not IPv4 or v6, yet it is using TCP.

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  • What is the OS, and what command did you run to get this?
    – Ron Trunk
    Mar 3, 2020 at 13:50
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    It's the hostname of the connecting device minus the domain. They just named it with its IP address in that dash-delimited format.
    – boomi
    Mar 3, 2020 at 13:57
  • thanks boomi that hit the nail on the head. now i dont know if i've installed something from akamai or if our company has some cloud storage with them.
    – Jack
    Mar 3, 2020 at 15:10
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    – Ron Maupin
    Dec 17, 2020 at 16:11

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Assuming you're looking at a Windows netstat output, netstat without the -n option resolves each IP address via reverse DNS (PTR record) and displays the result.

In your case that's simply the reverse DNS name of a connected HTTPS server. Note that it's not a valid FQDN as that would require including the domain.

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  • Yes output from "netstat /b", it'd be nice to see the output of "netstat /b /n" but now the connection is gone and I dont know what was making it. boomis comment on the dash delimited ip address lead me to what I was looking for
    – Jack
    Mar 3, 2020 at 15:17

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