Hello! By chance I tried this from my fresh OpenBSD VPS, which I
assume has had a default installation. Basically by chance (it didn't
make much sense) I tried lynx <external IP> *from my VPS*, and it
didn't work, even though it did work from my desktop PC:

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Looking up <external IP> first
Looking up <external IP>
Making HTTP connection to <external IP>
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile http://<external IP>/
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But there's more. A similar situation happens with ping (which, again,
works when called from another computer):

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PING <external IP> (<external IP>): 56 data bytes
--- <external IP> ping statistics ---
219 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
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Is this normal behavior by default? I know both things work from other
OSes, so I'm wondering if this has something to do with OpenBSD's
added security measures.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Cheers,

Ezequiel

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