CensysInspect
Scans the public internet to map exposed services for Censys's security search engine. It arrives at your server because your IP exists, not because anything linked to you.
| robots.txt token | CensysInspect |
| Respects robots.txt | Not applicable — scans address space rather than crawling links; Censys honors opt-out requests |
| Verification | Censys publishes scanner ranges; reverse DNS resolves to *.censys-scanner.com |
| Our recommendation | Your call — Benign research with a published opt-out — block at the edge only if you'd rather not appear in their index. |
Block CensysInspect with robots.txt
User-agent: CensysInspect
Disallow: /robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be CensysInspect from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →
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