[gopher] Gopher servers in the world according to Shodan

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Apparently "Shodan is the world's first search engine for
> Internet-connected devices".
> 
> Somebody sent me this link:
> https://www.shodan.io/report/6GCeEG7D ("Search for port:70 gopher
> returned 93 results on 01-03-2016").
> 
> They scanned 93 Gopher servers and according to them US and Germany have
> the most servers.
> 
> I have no idea how reliable this is. I don't know if my server was
> counted, AFAIK my gopher4all.com gopherspace is not search-able by
> Veronica-2 yet.

I haven't looked, but the bot is doing internal reindexing and that can
take a couple weeks to finish optimizing sets.

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