Re:Ever wondered how many open FTP servers there are?
by andai on Sunday September 18, 2016 @11:38AM
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How many ports are there?
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Re:Ever wondered how many open FTP servers there are?
by aeinstein1 on Sunday September 18, 2016 @12:18PM
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According to Reserved IP addresses there are 588,514,304 reserved addresses and since there are 4,294,967,296 (2^32) IPv4 addressess in total, there are 3,706,452,992 public addresses. There are 65536 ports, so one would have to scan all those ports on all those addresses.