UPDATE 10/4 6:47 EDT

I have been going through all the comments. THANKS!!! I did not know about the techniques listed, so they are extremely helpful. Sorry for the slow update. As I mentioned below, I got behind with this yesterday so work cut into my evening.

I ran a port scan. The first syntax, -p, brought no joy. The nmap software itself suggested changing to -Pn. That brought an interesting response:

nmap -Pn 1-9999 <Local IP Addr>

Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org/ ) at 2024-10-04 11:44 BST

Failed to resolve “1-9999”. Nmap scan report for <Local IP Address> Host is up (0.070s latency). All 1000 scanned ports on 192.168.0.46 are in ignored states. Not shown: 990 filtered tcp ports (no-response), 10 filtered tcp ports (host-unreach) Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 6.03 seconds Just to be absolutely sure, I turned off my work computer (the only windows box on my network) and reran the same syntax with the same results.

As I read this, there is definitely something on my network running windows that is not showing up on the DHCP.

UPDATE 10/6

I am working through all these suggestions. I am sorry for the slow responses, but I have my hands full with family weekend. I will post more next tomorrow. But I did do one thing that has me scratching my head and wondering if this may be a wild goose chase.

I ran the nmap again per below with a completely fictional IP address within my normal range. It gave the exact same results:

nmap -A -T4 -p- -Pn <Fictional IP>

Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org/ ) at 2024-10-05 13:36 BST Nmap scan report for <Fictional IP>

Host is up (0.054s latency).

All 65535 scanned ports on <Fictional IP> are in ignored states.

Not shown: 65525 filtered tcp ports (no-response), 10 filtered tcp ports (host-unreach)

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 182.18 seconds

  • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Besides the MAC lookup suggestion, have you tried to simply find hostname in local DNS by reverse IP lookup, maybe that would shed some light.

    Not sure if there is anything useful, but in browser just check site source, maybe there is something useful there that could help with identification. Does site have certificate? It might include info that would help with identification. Do the standard browser network trace via dev tools F12, maybe something useful appears there.

    In nmap you can attempt to guess OS, try that. Additionally it might be possible to get hostname as well.

    And have you checked your router to see if this connection is connected to your Wi-Fi AP or Ethernet to narrow things down? If it is not possible to determine this from router, simply connect your main PC to Ethernet, disable AP in router settings and check if IIS site is still up. If it is not, enable AP again, does it come back early or it takes some time?

    Lastly, if it still is a mystery, start powering off devices one by one to find the source. Based on comments it seems you have multiple devices, but I assume it would not take that long?

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    As everyone else has said this is the out of the box default page that comes with Microsoft IIS web server on windows server.

    Though I feel like you’d know if you had a copy of windows server running on your network somewhere—is the IP in your usual network subnet?

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      3 months ago

      The only windows box on my network is my company laptop. It is on a different IP address than that one.

      It IS in my normal range, but it is NOT listed on my Router’s DHCP client list.

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        3 months ago

        Have you recently installed visual studio or are doing any .NET development? It could possibly be a containerised version of IIS

        If you completely turn off your windows device and try to access the IP from another device does it still resolve?

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            Hmm

            I’d maybe try systematically turning any other devices off you think could potentially have the grunt to run windows server in a container or VM.

            Do you have a Mac/Linux machine handy? If you run arp -a in one terminal and ping the unusual IP in another, that should give you a corresponding MAC address for the device. You can then look up the MAC address and see if it gives you any more info about the device running it—it might not but you never know. You can use something like https://dnschecker.org/mac-lookup.php

            I guess next you could look at taking that MAC and blocking it in your router control panel and see if anything starts complaining

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              In addition, you might like to do a portscan on that IP address to see if any other ports reaveal something more interesting.

              You can run this in cmd prompt, I think, if nmap is available on your windows machine:

              nmap -p 1-9999 192.168.1.1

              IIS can only run on a windows OS, so it must be a windows physical machine or VM connected to your network.

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                3 months ago

                Thanks as you can tell, I’m not an expert in any of this.

                I will run this as you described.

                I did the nmap based on input from ChatGPT, it had me do a Ping base scan with nmap. It turned up nothing because that IP address did not return a Ping.

                This has me really curious.

                I’m concerned that the website I opened in Safari on my phone is bringing up a cache on my browser and is not actually live.

                I tried to open it from an iPad and it did not load. Iit still loads off my phone even though I have rebooted everything.

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                  3 months ago

                  In case it helps your troubleshooting, ICMP (ping) is typically disabled by default on Windows.