Censys is out of control

Please stop this nonsense

Teri Radichel
Bugs That Bite
Published in
2 min readApr 27, 2024

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Sure there are some Internet scanners claiming to do good by scanning the Internet and finding open ports but this traffic is ridiculous.

This supposedly (presuming not spoofed) Censys IP address hit the same port 6 times in a row — a (again presumably) DNS request to port 53 or whatever it was.

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Teri Radichel
Bugs That Bite

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