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That's not how it works. Shodan continuously checks all IPs on the Internet. When you visit the website you're checking for existing information in the database
by achillean 5y ago
That's not how it works. Shodan continuously checks all IPs on the Internet. When you visit the website you're checking for existing information in the database. Your use of the Shodan website/ API doesn't change how Shodan crawls the Internet.
- tyingq 5y ago"all IPs on the Internet." I believe all IPV4 addresses. Skeptical on IPV6. Though the ntp pool thing was clever.
- nuker 5y agoYea, but website user IPs could be used as efficiency booster, proven to be live.
- achillean 5y agoIt doesn't matter. We check every IPv4 regardless. And for our regular crawling we don't ping before we try to connect as a lot of firewalls block ICMP.
- amelius 5y agoHow do I check my server, which doesn't have a browser installed?
- Biganon 5y agoEasiest is probably a SOCKS proxy ssh -D9999 yourserver then set up the SOCKS proxy in your browser's settings
- drusepth 5y agoIt looks like it just redirects to https://www.shodan.io/host/<IP> https://www.shodan.io/host/<IP>, so you should be able to just plug your server's IP in instead in your regular browser.