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I'm still confused, because "curl -D - https://beta.shodan.io/host/$ALIP" where $ALIP is the IP address of my Amazon Lightsail instance, gives different results depending on where I do it from.

If I do that query from home, it correctly tells me that 22, 80, and 443 are open. If I do that query from the Lightsail instance itself, I get 404. I also get 404 if I do it from work.



Are you sure it's a 404 and not a 403? We block access to the website from the cloud so you're probably getting blocked.


Oops...you are right.


Strange! Maybe they have Amazon compute resources on a list and respond differently to avoid abuse? If they don't pop in here, maybe ping @shodanhq on Twitter.


Same IP? Don't forget your instance has different public and private IPs.




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