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Looks useful!

There are some issues with the port detection on my IP address though: HTTP was 'disabled' (whatever that means, but it's open and apache is listening) and SMTP was incorrectly labeled 'closed'. Https detection was correct, and ssh was 'closed', which could be correct if it means 'RST returned' rather than 'firewalled'.

Also I'd prefer seeing an OpenStreetMap tile rather than having Google log my visit, but that is probably just me. On the positive side, Piwik instead of GA :)

Another small point: I'm not sure which address you're looking for, but the whois info of my IP definitely contains an abuse address (80.100.131.150).

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Author here, I only include a static map, no JS from Google. But I'll look into it, I'm also not a huge fan of Google being able to log all visits.

Abuse mails get parsed from the RIR WHOIS data, this involves lots of regexes, which can be wrong sometimes. In your specific case it is the fact that it can't yet parse the remarks statement.

Although it does load something from Google, it's not Javascript indeed. Thanks for thinking about it!

From hovering over the (?) next to Disabled: > Due to Conficker Sinkholes, the server got listed a few times on blacklists, so I decided to disable the HTTP check

Yeah, the port detection seems to be a bit funky. It says my smtp port is open and I panicked a little bit, but everything is pointing out it's not open to the public.

The website doesn't function without like 5 different JS libraries from another 3rd party, so it's not just Google logging your visits. Unfortunately, this is considered totally acceptable for some reason

edit: Just noticed it's also loading fonts from Google

Author here, it's actually only JSdeliver and Google (analytics.dolansoft.org is mine). I wrote the tool a long time ago (like 2 years), there is a new version available internally which minifies all resources into static files delivered from my own server.

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