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[Sawtell]

Hello I am new to the forum from Australia.

I admit I signed up to get the discount on Blue Iris so dont hate me. I have been reading through a few threads here and understand the recommendation to prevent IP cameras from accessing the internet.

I purchased some relatively cheap 1080p ip cameras from a drop shipper here in Australia that came from China. I have set them up and they all seem to be maintaining a connection to a Singapore data centre :

upd  192.168.1.35:35779  47.88.173.237:21

Could there be a legitimate reason for this?

I have the equipment to segregate the cameras but have not yet. Is it urgent?

 

[IAmATeaf]

Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Is auto update enabled? Maybe try disabling that if it is enabled and then check to see if it’s still opening a connection.

 

[Sawtell]

I actually tried to ftp to that ip and after 2 attempts which timed out I think I was blocked.