# 23.40.179.27 — IP Intelligence Summary

23.40.179.27 is an IPv4 address operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AS20940), geolocated to Secaucus, United States. It belongs to datacenter or hosting infrastructure with reverse DNS name a23-40-179-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com. As of November 1, 2026, IPDebrief rates it Low Risk (25/100); no anonymizing service was detected.

- Canonical page: https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.27
- Last updated: 2026-11-01

## 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: Secaucus
- Region: NJ
- 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

- a23-40-179-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
- Forward-confirmed: yes

## Exposed services

- 80/tcp — http
- 443/tcp — https

## Analyst narrative

**Intelligence Briefing: IP 23.40.179.27/32**

Analysis identified the IP address 23.40.179.27 as owned by Akamai Technologies, Inc. (ASN 20940) within the 23.32.0.0/11 CIDR block. Operational data confirmed the network role as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Web Server. Open ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS) were observed with TLS certificates issued by DigiCert.

Reputation assessment returned a Low Risk status with a risk score of 25. No threat indicators, active campaigns, or blacklist entries were detected. The control plane showed one DNSBL listing across eight total lists. Neighborhood analysis of the 23.40.179.0/24 subnet classified the environment as mostly_clean with an abuse density of 0.0779.

Technical evaluation noted a contradiction between claimed geolocation and RTT physics measurements. DNS hygiene was rated Poor due to missing SPF and DMARC records. The overall confidence label was Very Low. The recommendation was to Monitor the address due to signal contradictions, with severity classified as low.

## 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)
- 23.40.179.28 (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)
- 23.40.179.33 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.33)

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Source: IPDebrief, "23.40.179.27 IP intelligence", https://ipdebrief.com/23.40.179.27, updated 2026-11-01. Assessments are probabilistic.