Timeline for How a VPS processes an incoming packet (conceptually)
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| Jan 5, 2023 at 19:43 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | A VPS is a simulated physical server. It's a simulated physical server. It does all the same networking things that a physical server does! | |
| Jan 5, 2023 at 8:17 | answer | added | siegi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 23:02 | comment | added | Alexander | I know, I was just being coy. My point was that the whole point of a virtual server is to emulate the capabilities of a real server. There's no requirement to behave in some uniquely identifiable way that gives away the fact that it's virtualized and not bare metal. " would be surprised if there are public lists online.", well, be surprised! How the IP addresses are divided up to ranges and assigned to owners is public record. See docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.html for example. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 22:54 | comment | added | user7088941 | @Alexander I know of course that a VPS has no such IP packet signature :) But how would I verify whether an IP belongs to AWS, GCP, Azure? I would be surprised if there are public lists online... | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 18:43 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 20, 2022 at 17:51 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 17:43 | comment | added | Alexander | " if the content was served from a VPS, instead of a physical server?" You can't. The server doesn't sign its IP packets with "– Yours truly, your favourite neighbourhood virtual server". Apart from like, checking the IP address for myawesomerants.com and seeing if it's one of the blocks owned by AWS, GCP, Azure, etc. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 17:23 | history | asked | user7088941 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |