I can see the T shirt now.

Photo:  Tied off shirt, daisy dukes, heels, hair, makeup.
Caption:  “I should have never learned to code.”  

From: Josh Luthman 
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 9:38 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Powercode oddity - Commerzbank Ip space

AFMUG 2016

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

On Mar 9, 2015 11:36 AM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote:

  I think we need photos...

  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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base contains 
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days. Our business 
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contact us via 
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with any 
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                  Powercode - The smart choice in ISP billing and OSS
                  powercode.com
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                  E: [email protected] 


                    ----- 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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