Ollama is an open-source framework that enables users to run large language models locally on their own hardware. By design, the service binds to localhost at 127.0.0.1:11434, making instances accessible only from the host machine. However, exposing Ollama to the public internet requires only a single configuration change: setting the service to bind to 0.0.0.0 or a public interface. At scale, these individual deployment decisions aggregate into a measurable public surface.
Over the past year,