Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

I was kinda surprised that none of my NOAA weather radios went off. I sorta assumed they'd be tied into the whole "national" alert setup. Why interrupt cell phones, AM/FM radio stations, and TV stations, but exclude NOAA weather radios? -A On Sun Oct 1, 2023, 10:24 PM GMT, Sean Donelan

Re: Comcast contact sought

We get around the brain-damage by having our router grab all DNS requests and convert them to DoT or DoH using dnsdist. That probably won't work if you're hosting a DNS server on your cable connection though. Call the normal support number and have them disable the "Security Edge" service. The

Re: So what do you think about the scuttlebutt of Musk interfering in Ukraine?

> Starlink isn't a monopoly. Ukraine could have guided their munitions with > Iridium or another satellite Internet system. Don't forget GLONASS.  On Thu Sep 14, 2023, 03:10 AM GMT, William Herrin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 5:47 PM Michael Thomas wrote: >>

Re: it's mailman time again

I donno Rich...a couple of decades ago I lost my Slashdot account because someone was able to access it. I used the password in two places...Slashdot and all the blasted mailman instances I was signed up with. To this day, I still use the same password on all my mailman subscriptions because I

Re: Comcast Business Account Website Broken

Someone else here gave me a pointer when I was running into this on the USPS site. Clear your cookies for that site. (In Chrome/Edge, go to the site, open up the dev tools, go to the "Application" tab, find cookies, delete them all). Something probably went a little nuts with the site and

Re: Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

If we have downtime, we lose revenue, customers, sleep, etc... If the government does it, what are you going to do? Get your license somewhere else? -A On Sat Feb 25, 2023, 11:39 PM GMT, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 6:12 PM Sean Donelan

Re: txt.att.net outage?

txt.att.net is returning MX records and those machines don't have port 444 open... Wouldn't you want to be sending something like a SNPP message instead? It's a much less convoluted delivery process and is almost real-time (no queuing). I guess it's been a decade or so

Re: Reporting Comcast outside plant issues?

I had that during the 2020 storm that swept through the US. I called PUD a few months before about a tree hanging at a 45 degree angle above the primaries. I called again a month later when I noticed the tree had been slowly shifting. No sense or urgency from the PUD. Then the storm hit and I

Comcast: "Reloading Statics" today

Just a heads-up for the Comcast crew lurking here... I've had 3 different cable connections (Oregon and Washington State) go down in the last ~1.5 hours. Staff on-site have tried rebooting the modem with no success. When we call support, they say something along the lines of "huh, that's

Re: PoE, Comcast Modems, and Service Outages

Thanks Jason—they are all are business connections. I know they can be restarted through the business portal, but honestly the business portal is terrible for large clients. Not all our connections are listed under the same account due to something with Comcast and the way "regions" and various

Re: PoE, Comcast Modems, and Service Outages

Thanks Blake, As I understand it all that stuff is on the "cable provider" side of the CPE and (within reason) it's up to the provider to deal with the signals arriving on the cable side of the modem. i.e. if it was a blower or something in our suite that was causing RF interference, the provider

Re: PoE, Comcast Modems, and Service Outages

Just to be clear Josh, I'm not insulting him. I find the situation extremely difficult to believe based on my (possibly incorrect) understanding of how PoE works and very (very!) basic knowledge of things like RF interference—especially when it comes to Cable networks. I mean, the call literally

PoE, Comcast Modems, and Service Outages

I just got off the phone with a Comcast tech, and wanted to double-check my sanity. Somehow in the last 6 months I've managed to reach the exact same rep twice when dealing with an outage or a degraded service event. I asked him to remotely reboot the modem because there was high packet loss.

Re: Is soliciting money/rewards for 'responsible' security disclosures when none is stated a thing now?

I had a situation like that a few years ago. Someone accidentally included the .git directory in a docker image that was deployed to a customer's website. Unfortunately early checkins of the .git directory included a copy of the WordPress (yuck!) config file with hard-coded passwords. Those were