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Networking: icanhazip.com
(lemmy.world)
Recently, I saw icanhazip.com pop up in my pFsense firewall logs. It was immediately blocked but the name piqued my interest, so I did a little digging which revealed an interesting backstory.
It's owned by Cloudflare:
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...but it hasn't always been theirs: icanhazip: How a simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users. Pretty interesting, at least to me as I have never encountered it before.
I have it still blocked as nothing I'm doing seems hampered by blocking icanhazip.com's ip range. Anyone else ever encounter icanhazip.com?
Wow, today I learned. That's a rather interesting story.
A bit of a sad ending, but a perfect example of why we can't have nice things - someone will always find a way to abuse it.