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by asplake 1828 days ago
Um, not sure I want to open that link. What does it do?
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Huh, press the "Find a Server" button, I can see in Developer Console it tries to connect to random IP addresses over http, returning "address invalid" or "address unreachable", I guess until it hits a valid IP with a live computer.

I wonder if some ISP's heuristics will flag someone's computer as part of a botnet...

Microsoft or AWS may also use telemetry to flag you also.
Never thought of this. I constantly scan the internet using nmap, or similar, for pentest/bug bounty and never had a problem
How are you pentesting without knowing the IPs of your in-scope targets?
If your scope is wide enough, everything is in-scope.
Some times you get a IP Range, or a domain-wide scope
It returns you a random server with port 80 or 443 open.
Just 80, it seems https://github.com/caioluders/server.casino/blob/354cec4c053...

That probably increases the odds that the servers it finds are "interesting"

Not really.... almost all web servers with 443 will have port 80 open to function. Current browsers all still hit 80 first.
Not before you push the button on the page though.