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Why is Lemmy.world redirecting to a private IP? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by AA5B@lemmy.world to c/asklw@lemmy.world
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Lemmy.world seems to have more crashes lately but whatever, I appreciate the work put in to keep it running.

But it just caught one of them. It was trying to redirect me to 192.168.1.9 - which is a private IP, non-routable. What’s going on? Do we need to worry about malware?

(And yes, this is exactly why I don’t use the same default IP range that every other residential user does)

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[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I've been getting a few of those too.

Can't find a 192.168.1.* (can't remember off the top of my head) address, though I'm on hotel WiFi.