IBM bought SoftLayer around 2012, so IBM Cloud/Softlayer are one in the same. The SoftLayer brand is still heavily referenced as all of IBM Cloud's infrastructure is built on top of SoftLayer. Their Washington DC facility is based out of Equinix in Ashburn, VA.
If that Q post is referencing that IP address it would have still been registered to SoftLayer in 2018 and since it's a public cloud the likelihood that that IP address hasn't changed in 5 years is slim to none (slim left town); not to mention the chans would have scanned it right away.
I'm running a port scan against that IP address right now. Will edit this post if there is anything of significance.
That's strange. I tried another IP lookup site to test it, I got even more weird results. Put the IP in the below website and you will get these locations:
I got this with a quick search: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/50.22.218.5
Came up in Washington D.C.
Decimal: 840358405
Hostname: 5.da.1632.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com
ASN: 36351
ISP: SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
Services: Public Proxy Server
Assignment: Likely Static IP
Country: United States
State/Region: District of Columbia
City: Washington
I looked up SoftLayer, and did notice this: SoftLayer was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
But strangely enough, their "website" links to IBM cloud services.
IBM bought SoftLayer around 2012, so IBM Cloud/Softlayer are one in the same. The SoftLayer brand is still heavily referenced as all of IBM Cloud's infrastructure is built on top of SoftLayer. Their Washington DC facility is based out of Equinix in Ashburn, VA.
If that Q post is referencing that IP address it would have still been registered to SoftLayer in 2018 and since it's a public cloud the likelihood that that IP address hasn't changed in 5 years is slim to none (slim left town); not to mention the chans would have scanned it right away.
I'm running a port scan against that IP address right now. Will edit this post if there is anything of significance.
https://ipinfo.io/50.22.218.5
That's strange. I tried another IP lookup site to test it, I got even more weird results. Put the IP in the below website and you will get these locations:
https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookup
grabs handful of popcorn