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How do you plan to prevent abuse? E.g. this website allows someone to portscan another IP without exposing their own IP. Even with a per-IP throttle, someone with a botnet can use this website to effectively portscan any one host without exposing any of their botnet's IPs.

I've been using http://www.canyouseeme.org/ for this purpose. It does have the limitation that it only allows testing the ports of the connecting IP.

Hey, that's a good point. Thanks. I'm still trying to figure out a way for preventing such abuse. Otherwise, I would have to limit the scanning to origin IP.

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