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need a small vps that allows portscanning/nmap
DeadlyChemist
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i dont need anything above 1gb/1c
country does not matter but europe preffered
ipv4 (nat is fine) and ipv6 required
my usecase? basically im priodically scanning my home private addresses, or my private proxmox addresses... (everything via netbird/wireguard) scanning public addresses can happen too, but not very often
i could have asked 999 providers where i already have servers... but yeah, easier to get one
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Most providers will not get you in trouble for scanning your own address, even if the ToS says no scanning. It's fully legal to scan your own addresses. Some providers are excessively cautious, so if you get banned, try a different provider.
Scanning is very abuse heavy. It will rain abuse complaints in no time
hi, have no issues with this and as the other comment said probably most wont
But only if you are scanning public networks all the time. If you are scanning your own networks, obviously you won't send abuse complaints to yourself. And if you are just occasionally checking someone else's port that's the same as mistyping an IP address, connecting to a no longer existent service that has been reassigned, or any other way that packets sometimes get to silly places.
Last year there was an incident of fake abuse reports triggered by spoofing SSH packets from Tor node addresses. There were... two or three "security" companies in the world who are incompetent at actual security, and generate an abuse report about a single packet. Everyone laughed at them... after convincing their providers not to ban them.