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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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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a Pi-hole or other custom DNS setup?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Nope. Nothing fancy, all out of the box, provider dnd, flat network, default configuration, except my home network is not the default 192.168.1.*

That ip does not exist on my network nor have I any sort of filtering or ad blocking

Safari on iOS.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've no clue what else it could be then, sorry.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Tanks

[–] 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.