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It's fairly normal for a laptop to be on a network behind a router/gateway. It's also fairly normal for a server to have public IPs associated with it directly
by TheDong 5y ago
It's fairly normal for a laptop to be on a network behind a router/gateway.
It's also fairly normal for a server to have public IPs associated with it directly, and for those IPs to be available to the public internet directly.
The latter is what probably happened here.
Newsblur appears to run on digital ocean, where I believe they still default to associating a public IPv4 address to each droplet, which again is pretty normal in the server world.
- tedk-42 5y ago'Really normal in the server world' is something i heavily disagree with. So there was no firewall then? https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/cloud-firewalls-secure-droplets-by-default/ https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/cloud-firewalls-secure-dro...
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- bombcar 5y agoAnd more and more things are getting publicly routable ipv6 addresses even when behind an ipv4 NAT device. So if you’re not careful you may be exposed on ipv6 even if incidentally protected on ipv4 by the NAT.