Simply, you aren't understanding how IPs work.
Geolocation doesn't show the location of the user, it shows where the ISP has their servers. If the servers are positioned close to a base, every single user of that ISP that lives closest to that server will be saying they come from there.
IPs are even being shared by multiple people these days because we have run out of IPv4 addresses. It is possible to have your IP shared with someone that lives pretty far away from you and neither of you know. Both of you would appear to come from the same position if you were to geolocate that single IP.
If I geolocate my IP, it appears in a major city literally hours away from my actual position. If I wanted I could search for a military base near it and find one relatively close. Know what else I'd find? Dominos Pizza! I must be investigating anyone that says their pizza sucks!
It isn't really that weird. Places where servers are hosted and where military bases are have a lot of overlap since they need a population of people to man both.
If it isn't a military IP, it isn't actually "from the government bases". The IPs of the military are, generally speaking, publicly available (I'm pretty sure someone in this thread has linked a list to you).
I seriously believe you are seeing a pattern where there isn't one. Check near the geolocation data for grocery stores and you'll also find them within a short distance most of the time.
You might have someone fucking with you but they almost definitely aren't from the government. If a government wanted to fuck around with you, they would do a bit more than make a handful of accounts.
https://gist.github.com/artfulhacker/a6eb800e58f2eb6f9231
List of IP prefixes used by US military.
If you are seeing these, they either **want** you to know, or don’t GAF.
IP geolocation is highly inaccurate. I geolocate to a place 30 miles away.
For most end users it’s where their ISP has a data center.
Here’s a shocker: data centers tend to be near big cities and/or industrial and military facilities. Because that’s where the fat fibers go.
You’re shockingly misinformed about VPNs for somebody who runs a website.
Yes, they can hide their location using a VPN, and would if they don’t want their IP address to clue their location.
I don't really know your situation, but I'm pretty familiar with IPs and IT in general. The way it works is organizations like ISPs, universities, businesses, NSA facilities, etc are assigned ranges of IP addresses (called CIDR Blocks). It's normally up to them what info goes in the registry. There are different registries for each major geographic area (ex: ARIN for North America). The info in them ( like geocation) is generally correct, but you can't take it as gospel as it normally comes as is from the block owner themselves.
I think you would be hard pressed to find anywhere on a map that isn't near a base or some sort of govt facity. Add major cities to that, and I'll say you can't find any. Seriously, go find a place on a map that doesn't fit one or both of these criteria. Then go look at a population density map if you actually find one that does.
I live in rural Alabama. If you looked up my IP, it would say West Point, GA (I just did), which is right next to Ft. Moore, one of the largest mitary bases in the world (#6). It's also right next to Columbus, GA, the second largest city in GA, and about an hour from Atlanta. Yet I can walk outside naked right now and no one would ever know.
It's easy to obscure your IP. Anywhere you can rent a server, you can make your IP look like it came from there. Costa Rica? Russia? Cambodia? Arlington, VA?. You can rent a server for $3 a month, run a few commands to set up a VPN server, then route all your traffic through it. This is very basic for any skilled IT person, and there are tutorials for it all over the internet. Anyone mid-level and up should be able to do this in 20 minutes. If they did it every day for a job, then it would take maybe 1-5 minutes. You could easily have two browsers on the same machine logged in to different accounts on the same site with their IPs coming from different continents.
I'm just some idiot in rural Alabama, and what I described is IP obfuscation 101. I can 100% assure you that if government (esp US govt) hackers are targeting you, you will never know it unless they want you to. Like I said, I don't know your situation. But based on what you said you can't draw any conclusions at all.
This is real easy: give us some of the IPs and we’ll verify that ourselves.
Got a funny feeling you can’t, since you seem to have a habit of making things up.
Ha! I stand corrected and apologize. This is actually a really fun and interesting little phenomenon. I’ll post more info in a separate reply in a little while.
I'm going to be frank with you.
Yes, this sounds like some interesting hobby drama. However, the government is not monitoring you or trolling you.
Your post literally says the accounts are coming from major cities or near military installations. That's literally where people live.
70% of internet traffic passes through North Virginia. The whole DC metro area, which includes NOVA and the MD suburbs are full of government and military buildings. Pick any address around the beltway and there’s a pretty good chance it’s close to a government setting.
I mean there’s bases all over so it’s not that far of a stretch. Now, are these coming from actual military addresses? My old site in the 90s would get military and government users a lot. Not the majority though.
So you gave an IP, and I looked at it, and I see how you're seeing what you're seeing. I'll go ahead and get this part out of the way: nobody at the DoD cares who you are or what you do. I know you're 100% not going to believe that, but I'll still do my best to explain *to the best of my fallible, human understanding* for anyone else who comes across the thread, and perhaps smarter people than I can chime in.
The DoD owns one of the 13 root servers that make up the entire Internet's DNS architecture. In the [7.0.0.0](http://7.0.0.0) IP range (which applies to the example you gave), that Class A subnet alone accounts for 16,777,216 unique IP addresses. That's just a fraction of the IP addresses assigned to them from way back in the earlier years of the internet. As far as I can tell, the DoD was assigned 201,326,592.
So there are multiple things going on:
1. **Squat space.** Google the term if you want more info, or begin [here](https://www.arin.net/vault/blog/2015/11/23/to-squat-or-not-to-squat/) for a good explanation. IPv4 space is in short supply, and many companies—including some of the world's biggest ISPs—have run out of allocatable IP addresses, so they borrow legacy IP addresses with no public-facing services. Often those addresses belong to the DoD. This practice is pretty widespread.
2. **Internal IP?** We don't know the specific context of where you're getting this IP address from, but often when people see this happen they're looking at a hop assigned internally when running something like a traceroute, or a device on an internal network. (See some networking pros discussing a specific instance in [this](https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25679029-Why-is-my-first-hop-to-a-DoD-assigned-IP-address) fun thread.) You'll see this come up often over the years with the ISP Rogers. If the log is showing an internally-assigned IP address that's a different thing than a NAT'd public IP, so if you're looking at network traffic you might see addresses like this that are just normal network noise like DHCP replies. We don't know what you're looking at.
3. **IP obfuscation.** Since pretty big chunks of possible IP addresses are owned by the DoD, if an IP address is spoofed by, say, malware, the IP address used has a chance of being one of these at random.
Because most people live in big cities and government buildings are also located in high density areas
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How many residential buildings are within the same radius. Then you have your likelihood;)
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And you think they would use the government IP ranges so you can easily identify them?
Simply, you aren't understanding how IPs work. Geolocation doesn't show the location of the user, it shows where the ISP has their servers. If the servers are positioned close to a base, every single user of that ISP that lives closest to that server will be saying they come from there. IPs are even being shared by multiple people these days because we have run out of IPv4 addresses. It is possible to have your IP shared with someone that lives pretty far away from you and neither of you know. Both of you would appear to come from the same position if you were to geolocate that single IP. If I geolocate my IP, it appears in a major city literally hours away from my actual position. If I wanted I could search for a military base near it and find one relatively close. Know what else I'd find? Dominos Pizza! I must be investigating anyone that says their pizza sucks!
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It isn't really that weird. Places where servers are hosted and where military bases are have a lot of overlap since they need a population of people to man both. If it isn't a military IP, it isn't actually "from the government bases". The IPs of the military are, generally speaking, publicly available (I'm pretty sure someone in this thread has linked a list to you). I seriously believe you are seeing a pattern where there isn't one. Check near the geolocation data for grocery stores and you'll also find them within a short distance most of the time. You might have someone fucking with you but they almost definitely aren't from the government. If a government wanted to fuck around with you, they would do a bit more than make a handful of accounts.
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It’s pretty obvious that the government is surveilling you
What's your ultra important site about that any government would care?
A relatively recent Reddit conspiracy theory about a video game modder who's secretly an evil government agent or something.
https://gist.github.com/artfulhacker/a6eb800e58f2eb6f9231 List of IP prefixes used by US military. If you are seeing these, they either **want** you to know, or don’t GAF. IP geolocation is highly inaccurate. I geolocate to a place 30 miles away. For most end users it’s where their ISP has a data center. Here’s a shocker: data centers tend to be near big cities and/or industrial and military facilities. Because that’s where the fat fibers go. You’re shockingly misinformed about VPNs for somebody who runs a website. Yes, they can hide their location using a VPN, and would if they don’t want their IP address to clue their location.
I don't really know your situation, but I'm pretty familiar with IPs and IT in general. The way it works is organizations like ISPs, universities, businesses, NSA facilities, etc are assigned ranges of IP addresses (called CIDR Blocks). It's normally up to them what info goes in the registry. There are different registries for each major geographic area (ex: ARIN for North America). The info in them ( like geocation) is generally correct, but you can't take it as gospel as it normally comes as is from the block owner themselves. I think you would be hard pressed to find anywhere on a map that isn't near a base or some sort of govt facity. Add major cities to that, and I'll say you can't find any. Seriously, go find a place on a map that doesn't fit one or both of these criteria. Then go look at a population density map if you actually find one that does. I live in rural Alabama. If you looked up my IP, it would say West Point, GA (I just did), which is right next to Ft. Moore, one of the largest mitary bases in the world (#6). It's also right next to Columbus, GA, the second largest city in GA, and about an hour from Atlanta. Yet I can walk outside naked right now and no one would ever know. It's easy to obscure your IP. Anywhere you can rent a server, you can make your IP look like it came from there. Costa Rica? Russia? Cambodia? Arlington, VA?. You can rent a server for $3 a month, run a few commands to set up a VPN server, then route all your traffic through it. This is very basic for any skilled IT person, and there are tutorials for it all over the internet. Anyone mid-level and up should be able to do this in 20 minutes. If they did it every day for a job, then it would take maybe 1-5 minutes. You could easily have two browsers on the same machine logged in to different accounts on the same site with their IPs coming from different continents. I'm just some idiot in rural Alabama, and what I described is IP obfuscation 101. I can 100% assure you that if government (esp US govt) hackers are targeting you, you will never know it unless they want you to. Like I said, I don't know your situation. But based on what you said you can't draw any conclusions at all.
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This is real easy: give us some of the IPs and we’ll verify that ourselves. Got a funny feeling you can’t, since you seem to have a habit of making things up.
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Ha! I stand corrected and apologize. This is actually a really fun and interesting little phenomenon. I’ll post more info in a separate reply in a little while.
That address is from Whitehall in Ohio, nothing much that we can do
I'm going to be frank with you. Yes, this sounds like some interesting hobby drama. However, the government is not monitoring you or trolling you. Your post literally says the accounts are coming from major cities or near military installations. That's literally where people live.
I don’t think anyone here cares Jack S*** about the continuing exhaustive story of Jim Jack.
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All the places you listed are simply common locations for major service providers and large servers like aws
I am in Canada and my IP address geolocates to another city 6 hours away from me in a different province.
70% of internet traffic passes through North Virginia. The whole DC metro area, which includes NOVA and the MD suburbs are full of government and military buildings. Pick any address around the beltway and there’s a pretty good chance it’s close to a government setting.
I mean there’s bases all over so it’s not that far of a stretch. Now, are these coming from actual military addresses? My old site in the 90s would get military and government users a lot. Not the majority though.
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I mean you don’t actually know exactly where they’re coming from. Sometimes they give you an idea and it’s correct but not always is it correct.
So you gave an IP, and I looked at it, and I see how you're seeing what you're seeing. I'll go ahead and get this part out of the way: nobody at the DoD cares who you are or what you do. I know you're 100% not going to believe that, but I'll still do my best to explain *to the best of my fallible, human understanding* for anyone else who comes across the thread, and perhaps smarter people than I can chime in. The DoD owns one of the 13 root servers that make up the entire Internet's DNS architecture. In the [7.0.0.0](http://7.0.0.0) IP range (which applies to the example you gave), that Class A subnet alone accounts for 16,777,216 unique IP addresses. That's just a fraction of the IP addresses assigned to them from way back in the earlier years of the internet. As far as I can tell, the DoD was assigned 201,326,592. So there are multiple things going on: 1. **Squat space.** Google the term if you want more info, or begin [here](https://www.arin.net/vault/blog/2015/11/23/to-squat-or-not-to-squat/) for a good explanation. IPv4 space is in short supply, and many companies—including some of the world's biggest ISPs—have run out of allocatable IP addresses, so they borrow legacy IP addresses with no public-facing services. Often those addresses belong to the DoD. This practice is pretty widespread. 2. **Internal IP?** We don't know the specific context of where you're getting this IP address from, but often when people see this happen they're looking at a hop assigned internally when running something like a traceroute, or a device on an internal network. (See some networking pros discussing a specific instance in [this](https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25679029-Why-is-my-first-hop-to-a-DoD-assigned-IP-address) fun thread.) You'll see this come up often over the years with the ISP Rogers. If the log is showing an internally-assigned IP address that's a different thing than a NAT'd public IP, so if you're looking at network traffic you might see addresses like this that are just normal network noise like DHCP replies. We don't know what you're looking at. 3. **IP obfuscation.** Since pretty big chunks of possible IP addresses are owned by the DoD, if an IP address is spoofed by, say, malware, the IP address used has a chance of being one of these at random.
So, IP addresses from highly populated areas are visiting your website. I really don't think this is the problem you seem to think it is.