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That long list isn’t curated, it’s every publicly routable IPv4 address. It really does not take long to run some canned probes against 3.7 billion addresses. M
by epcoa 3y ago
That long list isn’t curated, it’s every publicly routable IPv4 address. It really does not take long to run some canned probes against 3.7 billion addresses.
Making your service IPv6 only tends to cut down on this traffic.
You’re anthropomorphizing a script on some botnets.
- ericpauley 3y agoThis isn’t entirely true. Many scanners do preference specific IP ranges such as cloud providers. Cloud IPs receive substantially more scanning traffic than darknet IPs or even random corporate IPs.
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- iramiller 3y agoIPv6 only? If you have a DNS record for that your are still not making it very difficult for scripts to find you.
- epcoa 3y ago> If you have a DNS record for that your are still not making it very difficult for scripts to find you. If you put your ssh server or something on an uncommon subdomain how will these scripts find it? If you are on @ or some common name sure, otherwise no.