# 23.40.179.140 — IP Intelligence Summary

23.40.179.140 is an IPv4 address operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AS20940), geolocated to Cambridge, United States. It belongs to datacenter or hosting infrastructure with reverse DNS name a23-40-179-140.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com. As of October 23, 2026, IPDebrief rates it Low Risk (25/100); no anonymizing service was detected.

- Canonical page: https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.140
- Last updated: 2026-10-23

## Ownership

- Organization: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Network name: AKAMAI
- Allocated block: 23.32.0.0/11
- ASN: AS20940 (https://ipdebrief.com/asn/20940)
- Regional registry: ARIN
- Cloud / hosting provider: Akamai

## Location

- City: Cambridge
- Region: MA
- Country: United States
- Time zone: America/New_York

## Network classification

- Infrastructure type: CDN
- Datacenter / hosting: yes
- Residential: no
- Mobile: no
- Anycast: no
- Tor exit node: no
- VPN: no
- Proxy: no

## Risk assessment

- Assessment: Low Risk (25/100)
- Blocklist listings: 0
- Suspicious activity indicators: no
- Spam source: no

## Reverse DNS

- a23-40-179-140.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
- Forward-confirmed: yes

## Exposed services

- 80/tcp — http
- 443/tcp — https

## Analyst narrative

**Intelligence Briefing: IP 23.40.179.140**

Analysts assessed the address as a Content Delivery Network endpoint owned by Akamai Technologies, Inc. (ASN 20940) located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The IP received a Low Risk reputation score of 25 and supported standard HTTP and HTTPS services with a TLS certificate issued by DigiCert. No known attacker campaigns or specific threat actor associations were identified. However, metadata classified the host as "Suspicious Host" due to low-grade risk indicators, and the address appeared on one DNS blacklist out of eight total checks. Behavioral analysis recorded zero incidents, honeypot hits, or enumeration strikes. Analysts recommended monitoring the endpoint with low severity, citing low-grade risk indicators present.

## Nearby addresses

- 23.40.179.5 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.5)
- 23.40.179.12 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.12)
- 23.40.179.13 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.13)
- 23.40.179.15 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.15)
- 23.40.179.16 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.16)
- 23.40.179.20 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.20)
- 23.40.179.21 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.21)
- 23.40.179.24 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.24)
- 23.40.179.27 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.27)
- 23.40.179.28 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.28)
- 23.40.179.30 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.30)
- 23.40.179.31 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.31)

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Source: IPDebrief, "23.40.179.140 IP intelligence", https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.140, updated 2026-10-23. Assessments are probabilistic.