Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain?
by jchw on Friday March 07, 2025 @05:50AM
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I don't think that does you any good for Cloudflare, though. They will definitely be using SNI.
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Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain?
by kelnos on Friday March 07, 2025 @06:32AM
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That doesn't really matter, though. While OP is using Cloudflare, the actual server behind it is still a publicly-accessible IP address that an IPv4 space scanner can easily stumble upon.
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain?
by jchw on Friday March 07, 2025 @07:20AM
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I misunderstood, I thought the subdomain was an R2 bucket. If it's just normal Cloudflare proxying to some backend this is probably the most likely answer.
That said, while I think it's not the case here, using Cloudflare doesn't mean the underlying host is accessible, as even on the free tier you can use Cloudflare Tunnels, which I often do.
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain?
by ratg13 on Friday March 07, 2025 @07:44PM
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they only state they are using cloudflare for DNS, they didn't say if they were proxying the connection
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain?
by jchw on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:57PM
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Also a valid point. I guess without more details all we can really do is speculate about the exact setup. That said, I do now agree that the most likely answer is "the underlying host was accessible and caught by an IPv4 scanner" since well, that's pretty much what it says anyway.