# 23.46.156.38 — IP Intelligence Summary

23.46.156.38 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 a23-46-156-38.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com. As of November 1, 2026, IPDebrief rates it Low Risk (10/100); no anonymizing service was detected.

- Canonical page: https://ipdebrief.com/23.46.156.38
- 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: 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 (10/100)
- Blocklist listings: 0
- Suspicious activity indicators: no
- Spam source: no

## Reverse DNS

- a23-46-156-38.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
- Forward-confirmed: yes

## Exposed services

- 80/tcp — http
- 443/tcp — https

## Analyst narrative

IP address 23.46.156.38 was identified as a CDN node operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. (ASN 20940) within the 23.32.0.0/11 block. The host resolved to a23-46-156-38.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com and served web traffic on TCP ports 80 and 443. A TLS certificate issued by DigiCert Global G3 was validated for the subject domain a248.e.akamai.net.

Risk assessment classified the host as Low Risk with a risk score of 10. No malicious indicators, blacklist entries, or known campaigns were associated with the address. Behavioral analysis recorded zero honeypot hits, WAF violations, or total incidents.

Analysis revealed a contradiction between claimed geolocation (Cambridge, MA) and RTT physics measurements. The observed RTT of 19ms contradicted the minimum possible RTT of 120.2ms required for the reported distance of 6008km. Attribution confidence remained High, though overall profile confidence was Very Low due to data inconsistencies.

Recommendation: Monitor. Severity: Low.

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- 23.46.156.19 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.46.156.19)
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- 23.46.156.40 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.46.156.40)
- 23.46.156.41 (https://ipdebrief.com/23.46.156.41)

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Source: IPDebrief, "23.46.156.38 IP intelligence", https://ipdebrief.com/23.46.156.38, updated 2026-11-01. Assessments are probabilistic.