What is this?

[Reece11]

Why is it, whenever I visit YouTube the IP address ''host-82-15-95-140.not-set-yet.virginmedia.net'' seems to connect via Port 443.

It says the ISP is ''Virgin Media Limited'' but the Organization is ''TalkTalk''.

I have asked this question before regarding this, and to this day nobody on this forum can give me an actual answer as to what it is and why it is connecting.

So, for the last time, surely there is someone on here that might have an idea or clue as to what it is.

[Anonymous]

You had previous similar posts on here last year expressing concern that you were being spied on.

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Forum-Archive/What-is-this-for/td-p/4683322

I'll leave it to others to interpret the data in the current post but if privacy is the main concern then use a good vpn. 

[Reece11]

Bump. Anyone?

[Reece11]

Bump.

[Reece11]

Bump. I guess nobody actually knows what this means?

[Tudor]

Read the forum rules. Just bumping a post puts it to the bottom of the queue for VM staff. So if you go on doing it the post will never get answered.

[MrSimonC]

So I actually have an answer. I'm writing this in between one of the worst, up-and-down connection problems the UK have experienced from Virgin media UK wide. Today has affected thousands of customers – around 40,000 according to downdetector.com at time of writing.

After investigating on my open source router (my virgin media router is in modem mode), using traceroute, I noticed that virgin will use this temporarily as one of the routers which will direct traffic out to the Internet. They seem to use this when they are booting up servers and everything is not synchronised yet. For example, now that we've been reconnected again (after a long outage), the "not-yet-set" server has changed to " aztw-core-2b-xe-715-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.252.231.217)". Therefore, it seems that virgin use this when they have outages, and they haven't synchronised all their servers yet…