We all migrate to smaller websites try not to post outside drawing attention just to hide from the “Ai” crawlers. The internet seems dead except for the few pockets we each know existed away from the clankers

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    That’s because it’s numerically possible to sweep through the entire IPv4 address range fairly trivially, especially if you do it in parallel with some kind of botnet, proverbially jiggling the digital door handles of every server in the world to see if any of them happen to be unlocked.

    One wonders if switching to purely IPv6 will forestall this somewhat, as the number space is multiple orders of magnitude larger. That’s only security through obscurity, though, and it’s certain the bots will still find you eventually. Plus, if you have a doman name the attackers already know where you are — they can just look up your DNS record, which is what DNS records are for.

    • kossa@feddit.org
      5·
      3 months ago

      But an IP can have multiple websites and even not return anything on plain IP access. How do crawlers find out about domains and unlinked subdomains? Do they even?

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      3 months ago

      It’s not as simple as “only security through obscurity”. You could say the same thing for an encryption key of a certain length. The private key to a public key is still technically just an obscurity, but it’s still impractical to actually go through the entire range

      IPv6 is big enough where this obscurity becomes impractical to sweep. But of course, as you said, there may be other methods of finding your address