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Besides malicious intends and security disasters. These mini-servers could be used for all kind of cool decentralized "self-hosted" services.
by z3t4 8y ago
Besides malicious intends and security disasters. These mini-servers could be used for all kind of cool decentralized "self-hosted" services.
- walrus01 8y agoa completely legitimate and valuable network engineering resource is run by RIPE using small devices running openwrt: https://atlas.ripe.net/landing/probes-and-anchors/ https://atlas.ripe.net/landing/probes-and-anchors/ a RIPE atlas probe is a small tp-link device that needs a LAN port on your network and USB power. It forms a vpn back to RIPE, and uses traffic outbound via the default gateway it gets via DHCP to reports metrics like uptime, latency to various destinations on the internet, what its external IP is outside your NAT, what ASN it's on, whether your ASN is having reachability issues to the "whole" internet, etc. many medium and large sized ISPs host RIPE probes at different geographic locations in their networks.
- swiley 8y agoI've had one of these running forever... I should go check and see what sorts of queries I'm allowed to run on the collected data at this point.