Responsible Use & Legal Disclaimer
Effective: August 2026
Users must only execute diagnostic port scans, ping probes, and traceroutes against hostnames and IP addresses they own, manage, or have received explicit written consent to test. Unauthorized port scanning may violate local laws or trigger security alerts with target hosting providers.
1. Benign Diagnostic Nature of Tools
DNSfinder.net utilities are designed strictly for non-intrusive network health checks, DNS verification, and connectivity testing. The tools do NOT attempt vulnerability exploitation, banner grabbing beyond basic service identification, credential brute-forcing, or denial-of-service stress tests.
2. Server Location & Latency Perspective
All Ping, Traceroute, and Port Scanning diagnostics originate from our dedicated cloud diagnostic edge instances. The latency, hop path, and reachability reported reflect the network route between our edge server and the target, and may differ from the network route between your physical device and the target.
3. SSRF & Internal Network Blocking Policy
To prevent Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), all diagnostic tools reject:
- Loopback addresses (127.0.0.0/8, ::1) and localhost.
- Private RFC 1918 subnets (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16).
- Cloud provider instance metadata endpoints (169.254.169.254, 169.254.0.0/16).
- Multicast, broadcast, and reserved IETF testnet ranges.