Hacker News Reader

This reminds me of a research project that was done at my university a few years back[1], except they were specifically scanning for web servers. Out of the 3,690,921,984 addresses they scanned, 18,560,257 had web servers running on port 80[2].

[1]: http://cs.acadiau.ca/~dbenoit/research/webcensus/Web_Census/...

[2]: http://cs.acadiau.ca/~dbenoit/research/webcensus/Web_Census/...

View on HN

Based on Shodan there are at least 87,494,410 web servers [1] on port 80 now. For port 443 there are currently 14,918,407 servers listed [2], and for port 8080 there are 7,570,586 [3].

[1]: http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A80

[2]: http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A443

[3]:http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A8080

Reply on news.ycombinator.com