I'd turn off the portal change mac thing for now.  I'd bet there's a wrong
variable type and it's looping around.

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Mar 8, 2015 3:24 PM, "That One Guy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I can replicate the issue, I opened a ticket with powercode, just want
> input since weekend support is billable.
> Yes, powercode is pretty much a big DHCP server with reservations,
> customers have static reservations, the portal allows them to change their
> MAC address if they change their device.
>
> Ive never seen this IP space before. the red flag is that that Commerzbank
> is affiliated with bitcoin mining, not that that industry has any nefarious
> activity going on ever (maybe powercode way back in Utah had been using the
> spare processing power on their customers billing servers to mine bitcoins,
> it would explain how come billing servers always ran heavy)
>
> Im just suspicious by nature of anything I dont recognize, and when its
> made a change to a system housing customer data, I get really nervous. Our
> firewall is pretty restrictive in what actually gets to the billing server.
> Thats where Im headed next, to review those logs
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Customers replace the 1 MAC they get in the event they change their
>> router or sometimes PCs.  This is done with DHCP leases.
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>   Why would  a customer be changing or updating a MAC?
>>> How are your IPs assigned?  NAT?  Radius?
>>>
>>>  *From:* That One Guy <[email protected]>
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 08, 2015 1:06 PM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Powercode oddity - Commerzbank Ip space
>>>
>>>  I am able to replicate a small issue we are having, trying to make the
>>> decision of whether it looks like a security issue or just a bug.
>>>
>>> Through powercode, there are two ways to update equipment, through our
>>> interface, where we select all the details and through the customer portal
>>> where all the customers can do is update their MAC address.
>>>
>>> no problems with our end.
>>>
>>> However, when a customer updates their MAC address, it is assigning IP
>>> space that apparently belongs to this Commerzbank IP space 208.74.54.100
>>> and 208.74.54.99.
>>>
>>> This IP space is absolutely not in our system, and wouldnt route
>>> naturally on our network
>>>
>>>   Net Range 208.74.52.0 - 208.74.55.255 CIDR 208.74.52.0/22
>>>  Name DKIB-USA Handle NET-208-74-52-0-1 Parent NET208 (NET-208-0-0-0-0
>>> <http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-208-0-0-0-0.html>) Net Type Direct
>>> Assignment Origin AS  Organization Commerzbank AG (COMMER-109
>>> <http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/COMMER-109.html>)
>>>
>>> My initial thoughts are this is some bug in powercode.
>>>
>>> Paranoid me is that our system is somehow compromised and rerouting
>>> illegitimate traffic somehow. Customer is down, so not through them. but
>>> something like TOR rerouting or some other magician script for the axis of
>>> evil.
>>>
>>> Anybody have any ideas on this? I am debating taking our billing server
>>> offline, but would hate to take such an extreme measure for what could
>>> amount to nothing more than a fat finger from a programmer.
>>>
>>> --
>>>   If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your
>>> team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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