N-gated Hacker NewsJan 20
Finally, a riveting annual roundup of IP addresses that nobody asked for 🤦‍♂️. Geoff Huston heroically gazes into his crystal ball only to tell us that, surprise, the Internet still exists in 2025 🥱. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left wondering if the column will ever address anything other than the mind-numbing💤.
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-01/addr2025.html #IPAddresses #Internet2025 #GeoffHuston #TechHumor #AnnualRoundup #HackerNews #ngated
ISP Column - January 2026

Hacker NewsJan 20

IP Addresses Through 2025

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-01/addr2025.html

#HackerNews #IPAddresses #Future #Internet #Technology #IPv6 #Networking

ISP Column - January 2026

Aral BalkanDec 21

Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.

It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.

Protocol:

• At http://<endpoint> return an empty HTTP 200 response that includes the following custom header: 'web-reachability-id': ‘<uuid>'
• Hit: https://ip.small-web.org/reach/<endpoint>/<uuid>/
• If you get a 200 response back, your endpoint is reachable. Anything else signals an error.

Enjoy! 💕

¹ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
² https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt
³ https://kitten.small-web.org

#WebReachabilityAPI #WebNumbers #IpAddresses #reachability #Kitten #AutoEncrypt #SmallWeb #peerToPeerWeb #SmallTech

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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseDec 20

Lifehacker: This Tool Can Tell You If Your Home Network Has Been Compromised. “IP Check, from threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, will alert you if your IP address has been observed scanning the internet as part of a botnet or residential proxy network.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/20/lifehacker-this-tool-can-tell-you-if-your-home-network-has-been-compromised/
Lifehacker: This Tool Can Tell You If Your Home Network Has Been Compromised | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseNov 29

GBHackers: New GreyNoise IP Checker Helps Users Identify Botnet Activity. “The newly released GreyNoise IP Check is a simple, web-based tool that allows anyone to instantly verify whether their internet connection is being used by a botnet or a residential proxy network.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/29/gbhackers-new-greynoise-ip-checker-helps-users-identify-botnet-activity/

GBHackers: New GreyNoise IP Checker Helps Users Identify Botnet Activity | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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TechdirtOct 15

Research: Italy’s Piracy Shield Is Just As Big A Disaster As Everyone Predicted

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/14/research-italys-piracy-shield-is-just-as-big-a-disaster-as-everyone-predicted/

Research: Italy’s Piracy Shield Is Just As Big A Disaster As Everyone Predicted

Walled Culture first wrote about Piracy Shield, Italy’s automated system for tackling alleged copyright infringement in the streaming sector, two years ago. Since then, we have written about&n…

Techdirt
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Oct 10

"This huge #databreach is why I'll never provide my #ID #online"

https://www.makeuseof.com/this-huge-data-breach-is-why-ill-never-provide-my-id-online/

On October 3, 2025, Discord revealed that a third-party #customerservice, #Zendesk, attached to its chat platform was #breached, exposing the #data of many of its users—no specific number was provided at the time.

The data included names, #Discord usernames, and email addresses, #IPaddresses, messages with #customer agents, and limited #billing information.

This huge data breach is why I'll never provide my ID online

Discord users are facing the cost of providing government IDs for age verification, proving the huge issues with this security method.

MakeUseOf
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 30
🚀🛰️ Oh, look, another "deep dive" trying to convince us that the Internet's lack of geographic addresses is a scandalous oversight. 🌍📡 Spoiler alert: #Starlink won't magically geotag your cat videos, and IP addresses still won't tell me if you're in Bogota or your mom's basement. 🙄
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2025-09/starlinkgeo.html #deepdive #internet #geotagging #IPaddresses #technologyoversight #HackerNews #ngated
ISP Column - September 2025

eicker.news ᳇ tech newsAug 5, 2025
#Cloudflare alleges that #Perplexity, an #AIsearch startup, is using “#stealthcrawling” techniques to access #blockedwebsites. Cloudflare claims Perplexity disguises its #crawlingidentity and uses rotating #IPaddresses to bypass restrictions. Perplexity denies the allegations, calling Cloudflare’s report a “publicity stunt”. https://www.theverge.com/news/718319/perplexity-stealth-crawling-cloudflare-ai-bots-report?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

A new report from Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of ignoring robots.txt files and concealing the identity of its AI crawlers to get past websites’ restrictions.

The Verge
Show threadKevin Karhan Jul 14, 2025

@drscriptt Naive question: WHEN does the average #Internet #user ever open up a webpage with an #IP address instead of a #domain or even #FQDN?

  • Seriously, the only cases I saw were either some old, non-public - facing server in some B2B/API setting or a test that #httpd / #ngnix / #ssh / … function properly on like a #VPS and that the #DNS hasn't been updated (yet!) to include said host / FQDN in the records, and even then it's bad cuz you'd rather want to use it's FQDN instead because with #IPv4 shortages on one hand and tools like #Portainer on the other, one should not use an #IPaddress as addressing method because #WAF / #Proxies used to "#MUX" / "#NAT" services under one IP address or #IPv6 block may need that distinction by being queried for a specific FQDN...

The Idea if !SSL / #TLD for #IPaddresses makes me feel like Jeff Goldblum!

Jurassic Park - They didn't stop to see if they should

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