GetMyExternalIP() now pings some random real estate site #4679

issue magcius opened this issue on August 11, 2014

magcius commented at 6:54 PM on August 11, 2014: none

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/net.cpp#L398

www.showmyip.com seemed to have disappeared from the internet. The static IP listed in the source code, 74.208.43.192, now goes to some random invoice site for the Northern New England Real Estate Network. They must be ecstatic about their Google Analytics statistics.
googleanalyticsisjavascript commented at 10:58 PM on August 11, 2014: none

Google Analytics is client side javascript; they won't be seeing hits in that even if they did use it.
magcius commented at 3:44 AM on August 12, 2014: none

http://74.208.43.192/simple/
googleanalyticsisjavascript commented at 5:34 AM on August 12, 2014: none

Guess they did notice the hundreds of thousands of nodes bombing them with requests.
laanwj commented at 6:12 AM on August 12, 2014: member

See #4682
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