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From: Simon Westlake 
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 9:30 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Powercode oddity - Commerzbank Ip space

I had to reread that second paragraph at least 3 times. You've awakened 
feelings in me I didn't know I had.


On 03/09/2015 10:07 AM, That One Guy wrote:

  I suspected it was discovered, and v10 specifically broke the miner and the 
code that called these IPs from a list somehow put them in there. 

  If I were a developer I would do things like that, which is why God 
intervened everytime I tried to learn to code. I would be in prison, I would be 
very pretty, the koolaid lipstick would make my lips cherry red, and my shirt 
would be tied in a knot while my milkshake brought all the boys to the yard. 
Good thing for me I never learned to code

  On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Simon Westlake <[email protected]> wrote:

    I think your tinfoil hat is a little tight.. ;) If we were going to use 
your billing server as a bitcoin miner, why would we only change the IPs when a 
customer updated their equipment in the portal? And why would we even make it 
visible? If I really wanted to hide a bitcoin miner on your billing server, I 
wouldn't do it by sending your customers to the redirect page..


    On 03/09/2015 09:57 AM, That One Guy wrote:

      me and my tinfoil hat find it suspiscious that v10 resolved the constant 
overloaded billing servers and this pops up, like there is a list somewhere and 
since the first one I saw was affiliated with bitcoins, Paranoid me assumed a 
developer sometime in the historical chain realized there were alot of unused 
cycles out there under their control. 

      On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Josh Luthman 
<[email protected]> wrote:

        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
        Office: 937-552-2340
        Direct: 937-552-2343
        1100 Wayne St
        Suite 1337
        Troy, OH 45373

        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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                  ----- Original Message ----- 
                  From: Jeremy 
                  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 
                        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) 
                              Net Type Direct Assignment 
                              Origin AS 
                             
                              Organization Commerzbank AG (COMMER-109) 


                        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.




      -- 

      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.


-- 
Simon Westlake
Powercode - The smart choice in ISP billing and OSS
powercode.com
P: 920-351-1010
E: [email protected]

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