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How Shodan Works?
A Distributed Banner Grabber
Banner grabbing is the art of Gathering Metadata
Information about a system or a service. Here
Shodan Uses large and widely distributed Banners
Grabbers (aka Crawlers) that scans for all possible
IP addresses and Ports.
FYI :
IPV4 address - 4,294,967,296
Ports - 65535