carmine adder
• FIKA Version: Latest
• AKI version: Latest
• Port Forward
• Explain Problem: Had my server on for my friend through the night, should I be worried about these lines?
• What have I tried so far: Running a full scan on my system
• Logs: in the ss, will provide more info if needed
remote zephyr
This is just bot scanners / port sniffers, the things that crawl through every ip address and every port on the public web to try to determine which services are offered at which ip addresses. Sometimes they come from bad actors, sure, but even if they do they are generally scanning for a specific service with a specific vulnerability so they can attack that service on that port in some way.
Generally I would not suggest Security By Obscurity as a thing to make you feel more comfortable -- take steps to protect yourself regardless of how hidden you think you may be -- but SPT and Fika are such small, niche projects that it is unlikely anyone is scanning specifically for SPT/Fika. I personally have a SPT server hosted on my home internet via Port Forwarding and I just block IPs (with some minor geolocation blocking) via my network hardware firewall.
If any of the above does not ameliorate your fears, switch to using a VPN like ZeroTier, Tailscale, or RAdmin VPN.
carmine adder
Yeah figured, weird that the third request is different tho
remote zephyr
(You can test this for yourself by turning off WiFi on your mobile phone and then going to http://<your public ip>:6969 in a web browser. You'll see one of those unhandled requests pop up.)
The third request is just looking for common web host things, like the icon that shows in your address bar when you go to a website (favicon.ico). Sometimes you'll see a request for /robots.txt, sometimes for sitemap.xml. Common.
carmine adder
makes sense, thanks! I'll switch out to a vpn 😄