Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:30:49 UTC

:thinking_face: Stark Industries….

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:37:04 UTC

That isn’t one of our IP addresses. Typesense Cloud is hosted on AWS and that IP address is not owned by Amazon:

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:37:42 UTC

Stark industries is just a reference to the Superman comic series btw. It’s a very common theme to use in examples

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:37:58 UTC

What’s the correlation between your docs and the owner of the IP?

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:38:32 UTC

Just a coincidence? How did this IP find out that we are using typesense 15 minutes after we started using it in production?

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:39:19 UTC

Yeah it’s a coincidence. Guess the owner of that IP is also a fan of the Superman series

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:39:57 UTC

I’m going to document this “coincidence” in a medium article….

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:41:49 UTC

I would recommend reporting IP abuse to the abuse contact in the arin link I shared above.

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:20:20 UTC

Ryan Looks like that IP address belongs to this VPS company:

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:20:50 UTC

I’ve emailed their abuse. Waiting to hear back

Stark Industries IP Address Coincidence and Typesense