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Is there a publicly available "do-not-scan" host list (govt, etc)?

• penagwin 7y ago
  I've seen a few lists like this [0] floating around. I'll warn you that even with a list, depending on which ports you scan you're still likely to get abuse complaints. Also port scanning can max out networking bandwidth, and most hosts aren't too keen on either. [0] https://github.com/zmappingborg/blacklists/blob/master/blacklist.conf https://github.com/zmappingborg/blacklists/blob/master/black...
  • dorphat 7y ago
    Regarding the bandwidth, your own connection is going to be the upper bound: "If ZMap simply probed every IPv4 address in numerical order, it would risk overloading destination networks with scan traffic and produce inconsistent results in the case of a distant transient network failure. To avoid this, ZMap scans addresses according to a random permutation of the address space." https://zmap.io/paper.pdf https://zmap.io/paper.pdf
    • penagwin 7y ago
      That's what I mean, your host may be upset if you're maxing out a shared line.
• dontbenebby 7y ago
  > Is there a publicly available "do-not-scan" host list (govt, etc)? Sounds like a great way to broadcast your box is interesting. Sometimes obscurity is a good thing.