Look up variable declaration types.  I'm willing to bet someone did the
math wrong.  I've seen it a couple times before but I can't recall where.

While the IPs look random, they're not.

Josh Luthman
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On Mar 9, 2015 10:47 AM, "That One Guy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Where are these IPs coming from.
>
> and this is a direct serious question, at any point in time, whether as a
> product of bertram or the previous developers, were billing servers used as
> a distributed bitcoin mining system?
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Simon Westlake <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  It's not database corruption, but it is a known bug (IP changing when
>> MAC is edited in customer portal) and it's fixed in 10.03.32. The patch
>> will be out this week.
>>
>> On 03/08/2015 10:34 PM, Jeremy wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it seemed like a database corruption issue to me as well.  I had one
>> customer get the redirect and I went in and looked and he was on a
>> completely wrong IP (in a subnet that I happened to be working on earlier
>> that day and the evening before).  He hadn't even logged into the customer
>> portal.  The logs didn't show any IP change, but clearly his IP was changed
>> in the database, as he was working fine on the same IP for months and
>> months.  That issue and the incorrect assignments when a customer enters a
>> new MAC seemed related to me.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:26 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* Jay Fuller - Cyber Broadband Inc
>>> *To:* Powercode
>>> *Cc:* Cyber Broadband Inc.
>>> *Sent:* Monday, February 02, 2015 7:34 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: Ticket Updated [Ticket Number:5841] - weird ip changes
>>> during customer portal equipment edits
>>>
>>>
>>> Gentlemen:
>>>
>>> It has happened again.
>>>
>>> xxxxxxxxxxxxx, customer 1478, requested a public routable IP address
>>> which is
>>> in a different address class from what he was assigned at installation.
>>> Upon changing the address, he was assigned 104.152.40.91, which is an
>>> available address in the "Cullman Public" address range.  However, when
>>> looking at the ARP response (because the customer is bridged to our main
>>> router),  I saw another network device already had that IP address.
>>>
>>> So, I searched for that MAC address, which was 78:24:AF:7B:49:38 , using
>>> equipment search, which came back to customer
>>> 514, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, who had logged into the customer portal on
>>> January 29 to
>>> install a new router.  Upon changing his MAC address, powercode assigned
>>> him
>>> 104.153.191.25, which is not even in any of our network address ranges.
>>>
>>> It belongs to:
>>>
>>>  Source:  whois.arin.net
>>> IP Address:  104.153.191.25
>>> Name:  IMDC-KC-LOOPBACKS
>>> Handle:  NET-104-153-191-0-1
>>> Registration Date:  2/2/15
>>> Range:  104.153.191.0-104.153.191.31
>>> Org:  Iron Mountain Data Center
>>> Org Handle:  IMIML
>>> Address:  One Federal Street
>>> City:  Boston
>>> State/Province:  MA
>>> Postal Code:  02111
>>> Country:  UNITED STATES
>>>
>>>
>>> This is very similar to our new public IP range which is 104.152.40.0/22
>>>
>>> Incidently, it appears this customer was assigned 104.152.40.91 before
>>> he
>>> attempted to edit his equipment and was changed to 104.153.191.25.  Also
>>> of
>>> note, it appears this only affected the GUI/web interface of powercode,
>>> and
>>> the router/bmu continued to assign him 104.152.40.91.
>>>
>>> I will now have to reassign  xxxxxxxxx a new IP address since the
>>> web/gui
>>> gave his IP address to someone else.
>>> I hope this information helps you to figure out what is happening.
>>>
>>> I am still concerned we have some kind of database issue.  Weird things
>>> like
>>> this seem to be happening a lot.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Powercode
>>> To: Cyber Broadband
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:15 PM
>>> Subject: Ticket Updated [Ticket Number:5841]
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------- Please reply above this line ----------------
>>> Good afternoon Jay,
>>>
>>> We were able to test from this customer's account, and the same issue
>>> that
>>> was originally reported to us persisted. We logged into the customer
>>> portal,
>>> changed the MAC address by one digit, and immediately the customer was
>>> issued an IP address of 192.170.241.173. After changing the MAC address
>>> back
>>> to his current valid one, we then had to manually clear out his IP
>>> address
>>> in Powercode in order for the BMU to hand out a reservation for
>>> 192.168.3.36
>>> via DHCP.
>>>
>>> At this point, we are going to contact our network engineers for
>>> assistance
>>> in troubleshooting why this customer would receive a 192.170.xx.xx
>>> reservation, as this IP does not fit within any ranges defined in
>>> Powercode.
>>> We will update you as soon as we've had a chance to go over this with
>>> them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> John Mahnke
>>>
>>> Powercode - The smart choice in ISP billing and OSS
>>> powercode.com
>>> P: 920-351-1010
>>> E: [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* Jeremy <[email protected]>
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>  *Sent:* Sunday, March 08, 2015 9:25 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Powercode oddity - Commerzbank Ip space
>>>
>>>  I also have a ticket in about this issue.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:10 PM, That One Guy <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is known to them? (powercode)
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> yes, they're aware of it.  i pointed this out to them weeks ago.  :(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> *From:* That One Guy <[email protected]>
>>>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 08, 2015 2:06 PM
>>>>> *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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  --
>>>>   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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Simon Westlake
>> Powercode - The smart choice in ISP billing and OSS
>> powercode.com
>> P: 920-351-1010
>> E: [email protected]
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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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