Does anyone know if this was a cock-up or if they were infact deliberatly poisoning DNS to shunt half the traffic into a dead end without any hit on their web servers (i would have expected them to put in 127.0.0.1 or something like that instead of a random 192.168 address that could have caused some people to inadvertently call a page on a PC in their own home).
Im guessing typo cock-up as the address was a digit out from their /16 range. This sort of thing happens all the time but you'd think they would have tested things before this morning. Shockingly poor IT from See - and they say these are by far the best people to handle this??! I could do better.
I wonder if any of the other IP's in their range (194.168.202.192-255) also got there and may have got straight in. Something to think of trying next year!
I got a ticket because I know what a hosts file is and I can recognise that theres something fishy going on when my browser tells me its trying and failing to load a 192.168 address. But is anyone else worried that this is going to be a festival full of IT geeks!!?
Also because I am one of those IT geeks - Did anyone else notice that whois searches reveal Sees addresses to belong to a primary school??! Probably just out of date but a bit odd for such a major site.
% Information related to '194.168.202.192 - 194.168.202.255'
Backdoor, IP change
in Chat
Posted · Edited by urrrgh
Does anyone know if this was a cock-up or if they were infact deliberatly poisoning DNS to shunt half the traffic into a dead end without any hit on their web servers (i would have expected them to put in 127.0.0.1 or something like that instead of a random 192.168 address that could have caused some people to inadvertently call a page on a PC in their own home).
Im guessing typo cock-up as the address was a digit out from their /16 range. This sort of thing happens all the time but you'd think they would have tested things before this morning. Shockingly poor IT from See - and they say these are by far the best people to handle this??! I could do better.
I wonder if any of the other IP's in their range (194.168.202.192-255) also got there and may have got straight in. Something to think of trying next year!
I got a ticket because I know what a hosts file is and I can recognise that theres something fishy going on when my browser tells me its trying and failing to load a 192.168 address. But is anyone else worried that this is going to be a festival full of IT geeks!!?
Also because I am one of those IT geeks - Did anyone else notice that whois searches reveal Sees addresses to belong to a primary school??! Probably just out of date but a bit odd for such a major site.