I’m in banning more IP addresses from referral spammers today and have a little time for a quick aside. In the last week, I’ve been asked to help with several home networks. Three times I’ve been asked how in the world I knew what the routers’ IP addresses were.
I’m not a wizard… There are three options for “internal” networks. Your router has an outside IP address that is visible to the world. I won’t know what that one is unless you hit ipchicken.com and tell me what it is.
The three options for internal networks are the following ranges of IP addresses:
10.0.0.0 – 10.255-255-255. This range of addresses is typically used by Apple devices as the default. So your router, unless you have changed it, will usually be 10.0.1.1
172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255. I have never run across a router in the wild that uses this range by default, but there probably are some.
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255. Linksys usually runs in this range and the router address for their most popular models generally comes in at 192.168.1.1.
See, no magic.
If you want to check and see what the router address is, open a cmd window and type in “ipconfig” without the quotes. The default gateway will be your router. If it says nothing and it also says your ip address is 127.0.0.1, it means you have no network connection. 127.0.0.1 is the “local loopback” address that your computer gives itself if it can’t connect to a network.
The Google and Verizon deal. Man, it’s got to suck to be Verizon at this point. I bet they thought they had a powerful ally in Google and were slobbering at the chance to cash in.
It’s pretty plain to see that Google can’t lose in this scenario.
- Net neutrality = big win.
- Tiered internet = meh.
Google has forced the issue, and it seems it might actually come down on the side of the consumer, who is sick to death of being nickel and dimed by the telecoms. Come on EFF and FCC, take this opportunity to make it stick and keep the net neutral. Maybe Google can sabotage it’s own defense in this case. It will certainly work in their favor.
Kinda reminds me of the frog and the scorpion getting across the river. Except this time, the scorpion has wings. I’ve always liked Google, they have good products. I’ve also always kept a wary eye on them. It looks like Verizon should have been doing the same thing.
Who knew? Fight club style soap (minus the midnight run) and dog training. This will be a hoot.
The scenario:
You set up a new website and are excited for the client to kick the tires. You check logs regularly, and see someone from the correct town hitting the site. But, it looks like they aren’t really sure what’s going on, and then send something that resembles someone fishing for an old exploit.
You talk to the client and mention it to them in passing, and it turns out they haven’t hit the site. So you email an abuse notification to the registration, and what comes back? A canned reply, it turns out to be the cyveillance bot “protecting and serving” by masquerading as a person. Hrrm. That earns a ban. Get some couth, cyveillance.
I registered over there today and looked through the listings. Here are a couple of things that I think would be good ideas:
Add captcha to try and stop all the scripted autobids from Bulgaria. How in the world can anyone posting a project take any of the bids seriously with that going on? Much less give any kind of server access to actually fix problems. Yeah, I’m sure I’d let one of those guys in…
Get rid of the captcha monkeys. Good lord. No wonder spam is so bad. They even have an executable to download on one of them. Seriously?
Get rid of the “Buy 5000 fans on Facebook” contracts.
Ban the Craigslist spammers.
The site is a good idea, but good lord, it’s almost like wading through crack or keygen sites, kind of cesspoolish.
… I was fooled. It looked like Windows might be the path of least resistance for a project. And, once again, burned. There’s three hours of my life I’ll never get back. Hello again, Ubuntu.
… for my buddy Sparky. And it’s fun! Gonna throw a bit of HTML 5 in there just for shits and giggles. I’ll let you know how it goes.
I hit a birthday this weekend, and some stuff happened back home with my grandmother that got me thinking. I put up a site a while back, and I guess it’s time to start pushing it:
The first badge kind of says it all.
Seriously folks, he has turned into a serious hand-wringer. “Emergency Powers” to take control of civilian networks? What in the world is he thinking? If we get attacked, I say we just issue /b/ carte blanche to respond. I have more faith in those guys than I do in turning networks over to the government. /b/ would probably wreak some havoc on those they are defending, but with the gov’t we’d probably never get the networks back.
