I had 2 calls about Hulu that were resolved by a new dynamic pool address.
But tonight I had one that involved the Illinois State Lottery.  Some
support guy in India told the customer "proxy server" meant his Internet
signal was too weak so they couldn't tell if he was in Illinois!

 

Either Hulu and the lottery are doing the same exact thing, or they both use
some third party blacklist service.  I'm thinking third party.  Does that
seem likely?  It is certainly annoying if someone is permanently
blacklisting dynamic pool IP addresses with no way to request removal or
automatic removal after X number of days.

 

I tried to find contact at Hulu with no luck.  The only option seems to be
to log in as a customer.

 

 

From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 4:28 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Hulu IP blacklist

 

 

I think it might have been used as a proxy server myself. I never did get
any "good" answers as to what they were doing.

When I found one with "socks" enabled and i clicked on connections usually
there were none in use.  I did find one a few days

ago that had about 20 active connections before I cleaned it up.

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Ken Hohhof <mailto:[email protected]>  

To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 1:11 PM

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Hulu IP blacklist

 

The Winbox hack was definitely used to set up a Socks proxy, I don't know
what that is or what they were using it for.  There would be a seemingly
random high numbered port assigned to it.  I had a few customer routers get
hacked with this.

 

Can you explain what they were doing by configuring IP > Socks?  I thought
maybe it was a way of creating a backdoor into the router.

 

 

From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On
Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 12:25 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Hulu IP blacklist

 

 

i have seen facebook posts recently that a mikrotik exploit has been used
for this purpose.

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Ken Hohhof <mailto:[email protected]>  

To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <mailto:[email protected]>  

Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 11:08 AM

Subject: [AFMUG] Hulu IP blacklist

 

Has anyone had one of your dynamic pool IP addresses blacklisted by Hulu
because supposedly another customer was using an anonymous proxy at that IP
address?

 

I'm still a little skeptical that's the explanation.  If nothing else, you'd
think the blacklist would expire after 24 hours or something.

 

See the last item in the list here:

 

https://help.hulu.com/en-us/identified-as-anonymous-proxy

 

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