When I do it from home I immediately get a 404. It was so fast I assumed that the site got overwhelmed by people trying it and it was down.
But then I tried it but changing the URL on the 404 from https://beta.shodan.io/host/<home_ip> to https://beta.shodan.io/host/<lightsail_ip>, giving the IP of my Amazon Lightsail instance. It almost instantly told me 22, 80, and 443 were open.
Edit: ...but if I try either of those actually from my Lightsail instance, they both get 404!?
> Shodan has servers located around the world that crawl the Internet 24/7 to provide the latest Internet intelligence.
the v6 address space, on the other hand...
[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/using...
Assuming we aren’t tracked any other way, if there’s any pattern to how things are assigned or they don’t change, there’s no privacy.
Was privacy a feature?
Arguably, it's a negative.
Searching Ghodan for ssh server that are not on port 22 probably gives you back a venn diagram containing circles for "people who thing security by obscurity works" and "people who think their stuff is important enough to 'hide' by configuring non standard port numbers".
The intersection there probably has some interesting low hanging fruit in it...
(There's a third circle in that venn diagram which I sometimes sit in, labeled "people who change port numbers to keep log file noise lower", which wile maybe being a valid choice, also opens you up to being thought of as "interesting possibly low hanging fruit" by the sort of people who thing those things.)