Unexpected Verizon IPs found in xauth files

paul78paul78 Member Posts: 3,016 ■■■■■■■■■■
I had a somewhat unexpected discovery this evening and I couldn't quite figure out how it happened. I was wondering if I could pick some brains here on TE.

I use Verizon FIOS and some of you may be familiar that Verizon practices DNS redirection and 2 of their known IPs are - 8.15.7.117 and 63.251.179.13.

I was building a new Linux distro into a VM this evening and I wanted to get an xterm client from the new VM to connect on my desktop. So I opened up the .Xauthority file on my desktop with xauth. I was surprised to see 3 entries for Verizon IPs in my .Xauthority.

Anyone have any idea how that could have happened?
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