First of all your PC is not connected to Nugget enterprises (or to icanhazip.com or anything else if you do not have initiated a web/ftp/etc connection)greengeek wrote:Also...I'm probably blind, but I cannot see any response that has provided a justification for a connection with Nugget enterprises - which as far as I can see is nothing at all to do with icanhazip.
Did I miss something? Why is my PC connecting to Nugget enterprises?
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netstat -an | grep -E 'ESTABLISHED|CONNECTED'
The address that you see, and usually has the FIN/TIME_WAIT1/2 status, is the remote server (wait/)closing the connection that ipinfo initiated to find your external IP.
See image
Now why Nugget enterprises when we ask our IP frm icanhazip.com?
icanhazip.com has IP 216.69.252.100. The site is hosted in charlie.colo.mhtx.net that has a range of 9 IP and charlie.colo.mhtx.net is hosted in Nugget Enterprises, Inc that has all the IPs from 216.69.252.0 to 216.69.252.255.
When a site is hosted in a cluster, although receive requests at a specific IP, can service these requests from any IP of the cluster, depending on the topology of the system.
What you actually see is the IP from the remote cluster that icanhazip.com is hosted on, that is closing the connection.
I hope that's clear enough.
Edit: Add connection close states image