Scans

We conduct Internet-wide scans, and responsible research requires us to disclose why.

Why do I receive traffic from 93.95.115.14/32?

The Internet Lab conducts various ad-hoc and regular scans covering different chunks of the publicly routable IPv4 address space. While doing so, we will adhere to best practices defined by, and followed by responsible research [1, 2].

  • We do not attempt to abuse security vulnerabilities.
  • We do not attempt to guess passwords and login credentials
  • We do not upload files to your systems
  • We do not scrape for PII

Data we collect is purely based on mapping and researching infrastructure and services on the Internet. We may collect information about your services as far as they are publicly reachable to everybody on the Internet

The data we collect is studied to better understand niche topics and infrastructure of the Internet. We have roots in academy and use these scanning efforts to share knowledge, insights and to "give back" to the public domain. Data will only be shared responsibly.

What is the Internet Lab?

The Internet Lab is mostly a research project to study unusual activity on the Internet. More on internet-lab.org/p/about.html.

I do not want to be part of this research. How can I opt out?

You have two options.

Option 1 (Recommended)

You can contact us and send a request to opt-out. We will respond to the request within reasonable time and under consideration of working hours of the different time zones.

Send opt-out request.

Please add the prefixes you do not like to have scanned. Furthermore, we would appreciate any background on your motivation to opt-out. We are happy to answer any open questions you might have.

Once we process your opt-out request, we add the prefixes to our blocklist.

Option 2

Just block the prefixes listed below. Those are all IP addresses we scan from:

FQDN IPv4 IPv6 Active Active Since Discontinued on
scan01.research.internet-lab.org. 93.95.115.14 - ✔️ 2024-09-27 -

Which scans are we conducting?

More on the background of the scans can be found below. This is the overview:

  • TCP/1965

TCP/1965

Current research covers the scan of TCP/1965. It is a study on a novel protocol called Gemini. It is a by default TLS encrypted web protocol on building interconnected text documents, similar to Gopher or HTML. Its novelty lies in simplicity and privacy by design.

Contact

Details on how to reach us: Contact.

References

  1. D. Dittrich, E. Kenneally et al., “The Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research,” US Department of Homeland Security, 2012.
  2. C. Partridge and M. Allman, “Ethical Considerations in Network Measurement Papers”, Communications of the ACM, 2016.