Topic '[HSI] Fort worth' in forum 'Charter Internet/TV' - dslreports.com

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:10:54 EDT

anon posted :

said by koma3504:

Well maybee i could Stay on topic if every one would fuckin stop insisting it is on my side and It could never be on Charters END.

Nobody ever said it couldn't be Charter's end and nobody ever said it was your side either. For all we know it could been the video stream provider or a bandwidth provider somewhere in between.

Nobody was ever able to troubleshoot enough to indicate what the problem was.

If fact, most of us were just trying to rule out your setup to begin with. You know.... divide and conquer...

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:24:31 EDT

viper3431 posted :

said by koma3504:

It is just every one here wants to take the easy way out instead of working whith what is being used so in essence I could say I am a better Tech than you. Who know if these type of people would get off the kick of by passing every thing and try other avenues first they them selves may infact learn somthing there self.

Or we could say (truthfully) that you're the most inefficient tech on planet earth. Bypassing your equipment is the easiest and most efficient means of eliminating your equipment as a possible cause. If it works, the problem is yours. If it doesn't the problem lies with Charter and then you can point the finger at them. It really is that simple.

Edit: Had you done this in the first place, you would be well on your way to actually solving this. It is funny that nobody else reported issues with the sites/videos in question though.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:41:11 EDT

koma3504 posted : Well maybee i could Stay on topic if every one would fuckin stop insisting it is on my side and It could never be on Charters END.

And ya know what at this point since i have called charter on it and posted it here the problem is fixed already.

But we will never know if that is the case. Hence they would never own up to it in the first place.

It is Sunny here seems like its been raining fro a solid mounth.

think i might go enjoy some of it.

Perhaps tonight ill switch back to one of the ip's that the vids will not play on. and see what happens.
I would do it now with a live cd but not sure i could clone the mac id to get the same ip's and plus for some dang reason with mandrivaone will no longer play fox network. whan it did the one day i tried it. Damn plugin. If it was straight up flash it would. So now what am i suppose to do??

That leaves i have to use My windows box. And i dont have a hardrive with enough space to make a image so ya see why I am reluctant Putting my Windows box directly online.
If I had the $$$ to purchase a new hardrive for the laptop it would be no issue as i do not keep personal or sesitive info on it. Like i Do this one.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:30:13 EDT

anon posted :

said by koma3504:

Im not disrespecting it.

I am being disrespected.

blah, blah, blah,...

How Attackers Can Exploit BGP
Because a nation state can easily control the border routers of many ASes,blah, balah....

said by koma3504:

blah, blah blah...

Yea it could be media but it works in other computers and did eventually boot up agian. in said laptop. Explain that.

STOP!!!!

Remember what DaSneak1D JUST wrote???

said by DaSneaky1D :

Anytime that anyone posts anything of help, you either ignore it or post some rambling non-sense post with near useless info that stears the tread on a completely unrelated direction.

Stay on the topic you started and answer the questions about the IPs that have been asked repeatedly.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:44:33 EDT

Rampage522 posted : Yes, there are zero-day exploits and they are a risk. They're also RARE, particularly without user action.

A live CD or an image of your current setup (to be restored upon the apparently inevitable takeover of your system) would address that concern.

You want to fix this, or do you want to just shoot down every suggestion offered? Just tell me so I know.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:26:05 EDT

koma3504 posted : Acually their is the Zero day exploits as well.

If every one here wants A computer directly connected then Charter will have to send one of their computers.
Instead of not sending no one to the scheduled Visit yesterday between 8am-10am for the modem rebooting it self at night.
And they might have to bne here for a little bit as we will have to force their computers to get all those ip's that i have had before. I used to have a test laptop that i used but it really weired i had evedence in wireshark logs on that laptop.
Well the hard drive was crashed it was not that old.
And for some reason every time i would boot up a live cd i would have to keep switching back and fourth between different os's. It weired you have say a copy of Suse up and running And you go to reboot It it should boot up again right?? well i would have to switch to say knoppix or mandriva each and every time. Yea it could be media but it works in other computers and did eventually boot up agian. in said laptop. Explain that.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:24:47 EDT

anon posted :

said by koma3504:

Not one person has come up with a good reason why it works with only new ip's i have never had And every ip I have ever had it would not work.

Nobody has come up with a good reason because YOU haven't filled in the missing info about WHAT ELSE HAS CHANGED with your connection.

You won't tell us the info absolutely needed to further diagnose the issue.

Again....

So, working IPs and non-working IPs, what's the relationship, what's the pattern?

Are the IPs it's working on in the same subnet as the IPs it's not working on? or are the working and non-working on different subnets?

Does having different IPs lead you to different video stream servers for content? Have you checked? Realize this isn't the same as the webserver you're selecting the videos from.

Are different (public) subnets handled differently by your firewall? This wouldn't even be asked if it wasn't involved in the connection.

You said you had the vids working and not working on the MandrivaOne LiveCD test setup, what changed between working and not working? Your public IP? Anything? Nothing? What?

Do the different IPs you get have different geolocation info associated with them? Try here:
»www.ip2location.com/
»www.hostip.info/
»www.ipaddressguide.com/

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:14:58 EDT

Rampage522 posted : Short version:

Don't tell me, I already know.

Man, we're just trying to help. Even if bypassing the firewall wouldn't "prove" anything, it might give a CLUE as to what's going on. This is basic stuff. You make the setup as simple as possible, then add stuff back until it breaks again. If it doesn't break until the last step and you know that's not a likely cause, then you have accomplished 2 things: 1) you are vindicated and 2) you have more ammunition to prove your point.

Right now it comes off as speculation. Your reasoning for not really proving things to us is either you don't want to risk Windows getting infected in 30 seconds (hint: that won't happen if Windows patches are up to date, please discard that old myth they sell at Best Buy) or you can't talk about your method of proving on this forum.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:40:45 EDT

koma3504 posted : Ok well I have refused to bypass with charter tech support on the phone and we continued They did not end the call.

Im not disrespecting it.

I am being disrespected. I have seen other users here post simular issues and do not get flamed and do as i do. but yet they get resolutions. I dont.

Their is something fishy going on Perhaps It could be related to a hacker.

Not one person has come up with a good reason why it works with only new ip's i have never had And every ip I have ever had it would not work.

I could guess Maybee it could be that on a residintial account They filter stuff Perhaps THE CBN account I am on was not properly upgraded and im getting cuaght in some kind of filter or cap.

You have a program for changing a Mac on a ethernet card
?? Laptop nics have the feture built in Desktops cards atleast all the ones ive looked At do not. So by bypassing everything I will never get the same Ip from the card. Since im not using the origanal MAc. IM Mac cloning in smoothwall. I have a preset 10 that i can change to at will. I can also go in and edit those predifined Mac address @ will.

Perhaps Noone thinks what i am saying is a posibility Simply because no one has ever ran accross it before. Because upper managment At any isp only alots a certain amount of time to dignose and move on to the next customer.
Where as Me my time is almost unlimited.
I was dignosing and fixing computers remotly way before i ever came to this site.

fact:
I know i have pissed of some hard core hackers.
And we wont discuss that.

If everyone thinks the ISP network or the backbones of the internet Are supper uber immunne to being hacked or corrupted. Well their wrong.

their is probally only one way I will ever be able to Prove My points. And we can not discuss that ON this forum.

Ok by your statment.

I'll tell you a little telecom/IT secret....the most obvious cause of something is usually not the cause. That "by the book", book is only about 6 pages long.

The most obvious cause in this case every one thinks its my network. And by your statement thats not the cause.

Maybee thats the problem the book is only freekin 6 pages long.
No wonder most are so very clueless when you call tech support. Its all over this site.

Edit:

I have let this internet consume too much of my time and life ever since 2000 and when i try to walk away from it all and just use my computer like a regular Consumer The SHIT gets more bizarre and more complex shit starts to happen.
It is really weired.

Edit:

thught i would add some proof of concept stuff.

ttp://www.forbes.com/2007/08/22/scada-hackers-infrastructure-tech-security-cx_ag_0822hack.html

»www.forbes.com/2007/08/22/scada-···ack.html

»www.linuxexposed.com/content/view/191/1/

»www.ciscopress.com/articles/arti···=1237179

Article Description
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flaws have contributed to several major Internet outages. These problems are likely to get worse because cyberwarriors, criminals, and even script kiddies have the potential to exploit BGP to deny service, sniff communications, misroute traffic to malicious networks, map network topologies, and trigger network instabilities. But Carolyn Meinel says that sysadmins can take advantage of resources offered by several organizations to detect and defeat BGP problems.

How Attackers Can Exploit BGP
Because a nation state can easily control the border routers of many ASes, both overtly and covertly, cyberwar is potentially the most serious scenario for BGP exploitation. However, any individual can get into the act by breaking into a BGP-enabled router. The Internet has many poorly managed edge networks whose border routers are more likely to suffer default passwords or remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, or allow Telnet logins.

Even without control of a border router, an attacker may send it off-path, third-party reset (RST) segments with forged source addresses of victim routers. This makes it appear as if the victim routers have gone offline, removing them from the routing table.

The TCP MD5 Signature protocol, adopted in 1998, was supposed to make it impossible to forge resets. However, discovery of mathematical flaws in MD5 and the power of today's processors mean that it only takes hours for a laptop to find a valid sequence number.

be sure to read section 2 as well

»www.ciscopress.com/articles/arti···seqNum=2

»www.securityfocus.com/news/11263

»www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/0···-the-in/

»www.computerworld.com/s/article/···lack_Hat

»www.computerworld.com/s/article/···myId=085

»www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/su···5202_ITM

In brief, the vulnerability allows a TCP connection to be reset. This isn't a big deal most of the time, but if enough such resets happen quickly, the device that is terminating the session (a switch, router, firewall, or something similar) can be effectively shut down and will then be removed from the Internet routing tables. If the device is the only means to access a network segment, then that segment is effectively removed from the Internet.

Until now, the assumption was that it would be impossible for someone to guess the information required to attack a device and cause these session resets to happen, but it turns out it's not so hard after all.

Fortunately, this vulnerability is only a potential problem at this point. That doesn't mean it's not important -- obviously, now that the word is out, somebody somewhere will create some malware to carry out the exploit.

I currently have 808 connection resets received hmm

»searchsecurity.techtarget.com/ne···00.html#

i could go on and on but this should be enough reading for now. heck its all over the internet It's just not me!!!!

oh and lets not forget about the recient DNS exploits.

This is something internal to charter

13:36:03 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4177 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:06 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4354 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:12 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4354 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:15 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4454 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:18 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4608 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:21 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4608 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:27 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4608 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:31 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4755 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:33 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4932 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:36 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4932 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:42 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4932 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:47 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1126 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:48 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1210 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:50 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1210 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:36:56 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1210 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:03 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1534 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:03 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1379 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:06 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1534 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:12 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1534 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:15 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1703 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:18 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1880 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:20 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1880 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:27 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1880 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:33 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2134 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:37:35 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2134 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:46:11 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4354 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:46:23 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4608 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:46:39 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4932 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:46:55 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1210 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:47:11 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1534 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:47:23 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1880 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:05:54 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1750 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:05:55 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4107 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:05:57 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1750 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:06:03 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1750 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:06:07 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4293 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:06:09 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2004 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:06:12 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2004 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:06:18 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2004 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:06:24 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2191 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:06:27 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2191 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:31 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3701 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:31 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1356 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:34 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3701 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:40 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3701 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:46 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4002 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:47 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1611 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:49 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4002 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:55 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4002 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:15:59 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 1750 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:16:01 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4348 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:16:04 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4348 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:16:10 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4348 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
13:16:15 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2004 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)

it shows up in my iftop -i eth0 as being
static.unknown.charter.com

»www.robtex.com/dns/static.unknow···l#shared

I could probally add 3 pages to this thread if i posted all the logs from that Single IP alone.

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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:04:39 EDT

DaSneaky1D posted : Koma3504,

Your above post is the exact reason why people who honestly try to help you get so frustrated in dealing with you. The biggest problem in everything you post on DSLR is that you never seem to think you're at fault for anything. I've "googled" your username yesterday and seen you repeat the same attitude for years all over the Internet, so it comes as no surprise that nothing has been accomplished in this post.

Anytime that anyone posts anything of help, you either ignore it or post some rambling non-sense post with near useless info that stears the tread on a completely unrelated direction.

Now, everyone that does attempt to help only has your explanation of the network set up. So, in order to simply things, people that voluenteer their time here (often, professionals in the telecom/IT industry) do the first thing any technician is taught to do...divide and conquer. You absolutely refuse to divide your network so others can help troubleshoot, so you effectively kill any attempt to pursue any issue further. If you called Charter's tech support and refused to do the same thing, they'll end the call. Maybe this thread should do the same thing?

It's fine and well for you to have an interest in networking and you feel comfortable with dabbling with stuff on your network. However, once you start asking others for help about a perceived problem, it's going to take you sitting back and following the directions of those to whom you're asking. There's no need to try to qualify your reasons for NOT doing what's requested of you with past experience you've encountered. Just do it, advise of your results, and let the next step be presented.

And, I'll tell you a little telecom/IT secret....the most obvious cause of something is usually not the cause. That "by the book", book is only about 6 pages long. The things professionals learn, only through years of experience, is normally "outside the box" solutions that come from a thinking process trained by expecting the unexpected. Having someone offer that here at DSLR to you....for free....is exceptional. Please stop disrespecting it.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:47:07 EDT

anon posted : You are ASSUMING a lot that isn't proven yet. Do you KNOW that a test laptop on a test modem won't work with the same IP that doesn't work with your setup? No, you haven't tried. Do you KNOW a test laptop on your modem won't work with the same IP that doesn't work with your setup? No, you haven't tried.

Using Linux LiveCDs aren't going to get Windows compromised, it's not Windows. Nothing gets written to disk, it's a CD. Even if it did get compromised, restart the PC without it, and the PC is back to normal. A random driveby of BIOS rootkit that will infect your specific variant of Linux during the test period for your particular version of BIOS to infect your Windows install upon boot is statistically nothing to worry about. Worry about getting stuck by lightening while being eaten by a Swine flu infected shark first.

So, working IPs and non-working IPs, what's the relationship, what's the pattern?

Are the IPs it's working on in the same subnet as the IPs it's not working on? or are the working and non-working on different subnets?

Does having different IPs lead you to different video stream servers for content?

Are different subnets handled differently by your firewall?

Find out WHAT ELSE changes when your IP changes!!! A different IP alone won't cause this, it's just a number, something else related to the IP is causing this problem.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:33:53 EDT

koma3504 posted : Ok ill address in the order you posted such.

How do i know ?
Simple Hence I did not remove any thing in my network!

On how about i eliminate.
Yes i get that had the problem persisted.
Which would have told me that there was something wrong with The smooth wall box or a router elsewhere. Which would have lead me to believe that I either had a possible infection or corruption in the OS or a router firmware. I ruled out that it was a corruption Of the Tcp/Ip stack on the computer as it happen on every Computer here at the location.
The probability of Every Computer or device Having a corrupt Tcp/Ip stack Is highly Unlikely in the first place.

By Duplicating the problem by Bypassing every thing would have never worked? As I would have gotten a totally different Ip anyway. Unless I changed the Mac Address On the pc it self to the one that the smooth wall box was getting so i would have Gotten the Exact same IP i was having a problem with. Or by Swapping out ethernet Cards But that would not have worked I would still would have had to clone the Mac As the Mac being used was not the original to the Card. So that would been wasting time.

On the issue of the flash player If you have been doing Support for 10 Years then You would know that With all the xploits for flash It can and does get corrupt from time to time And uninstalling and reinstalling the flash Resolves the issue.
Which I did in-fact Try with No luck. Well Um unless you have read from scripts for 10 years with no real world first hand experience.

I too have Been doing technical support for about 8 years or so.
But unlike you I have done 90% of it remotely Not knowing a thing about the users setup. Working with what was in place as is. Instead of risking them getting hit by a drive by download/virii or trojan. that can infect windows in under 30 seconds. Directly hooked to the internet.
By remotely i mean I took control of their computers{with their consent} Behind their routers and all with being behind the way i have my network setup and even when i had more Cascaded Nat on my side. It is all about the pinholes and port forwards one makes.
I once removed over 10000 viruses from a users computer Remotely

On the issue of using a test modem That would not have done nothing as you would have received A different Ip than i was having a issue with. Also plugging your laptop Into my modem would also yeileded no results as you would have still gotten A different Ip address from the DHCP sever IE all Differnet Mac Addresses. This is why people clone Macs on cable networks and who knows maybe on uverse accounts now as well. to get a new Ip from the DHCP its not like DSL where you authenticate with a user name and password to get your IP.
Now if you would have hooked your laptop Directly behind My stuff And it worked on your PC but not Any of mine than that would have indicated a computer problem on every computer. If in-fact My stuff still had the same IP.

What is odd is it would not work on any IP i ever had before.
Now it works By getting A IP that i have never had before Explain that??
and is still working as i just finished 2 hours worth of shows well just under 2 hours. One of which was ABC network that uses the move plugin. And one on CBS that does not.

My hypothesis is that something is corrupt or amiss somewhere.

It is possible that it could be a line issue That is causing this.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:52:39 EDT

anon posted :

said by koma3504:

I stilll do not see why we have to keep re-hashing this when it was not even the problem the problem lay some where else

...

or simply replace one with the other for trouble shooting as well. thats why it is called trouble shooting process of elimination.

How do you know the problem "lay somewhere else"?

How about you eliminate your home setup as a possible cause.... by bypassing it entirely. Don't you get that?

Basically duplicate the problem on another setup untouched by Smoothwall, cascaded NAT, firewall rules, port blocking, PAT, proxies, OpenDNS, and all the other custom tweaks your network has.

said by koma3504 :

Im surprised you did not mention unistalling and reinstalling Flash player along with the move networks player.

Why would I do that when I have no idea if it's a server, provider, or client issue?

I'm trying to do the easiest, quickest thing possible in a complicated home setup... eliminate the client from the problem entirely.

said by koma3504 :

It is just every one here wants to take the easy way out instead of working whith what is being used so in essence I could say I am a better

I've spent the last 10 years resolving technical problems. Thousands of cable client internet connections in limited time as part of that.

If I was there, after remotely checking to see if there were any similar issues in the area and after using a test modem on your tap and my laptop to try and duplicate the problem.... I'd walk up to your modem, disconnect your network from the modem, plug in MY laptop to the modem, and see if I had the problem too. Since only you're there, we have to use your stuff.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:06:19 EDT

koma3504 posted :

said by NSA_CIA :

said by koma3504:

No i did not bypass my Firewall.

connecting directly to the modem would produce the same results as getting a different IP . hence different Mac address.

No it does not make a difference in MY case.

So all the modifications your firewall/router makes to your connection don't have any effect on your connection?

So some or none of the following happen when your firewall is in the loop?
•inbound/outbound port blocking
•IP blocking
•NAT
•PAT
•3rd party DNS server use
•stateful packet inspection
•protocols filtering/blocking
•malware blocking
•ad blocking
•QOS
•rate limiting
•etc...

Yeah, I can see why it won't make any difference to bypass your firewall and use a simple direct connect.... It doesn't do anything. :uhh:

Had I not been able to connect to any website or do a trace to any thing or ping. Or if the Vidio would still not work.
I would have turned soem stuff off.
how ever that was not the case so there was no need to bypass it. As I did turn off the firewall and the ids and the webproxy in Smoothwall no difference while i had the old IP.

Im supprised you did not mention unistalling and reinstalling Flash player along with the move networks player.

On a side note Had it been the smoothwall causing it.
I would have researched it and tried to fix what ever it might have been. So as to learn how to fix it before just reinstalling the os. That how one learns does one not??

I stilll do not see why we have to keep re-hashing this when it was not even the problem the problem lay some where else

Side note 2

I do have 2 other firewall boxes i could put up on line.
either on there own IP of i could just daisy chan them ;)
or simply replace one with the other for trouble shooting as well. thats why it is called trouble shooting process of elimination.
It is just every one here wants to take the easy way out instead of working whith what is being used so in essence I could say I am a better Tech than you. Who know if these type of people would get off the kick of by passing every thing and try other avenues first they them selves may infact learn somthing there self.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:12:46 EDT

anon posted :

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:36:56 EDT

koma3504 posted : No i did not bypass my Firewall.

connecting directly to the modem would produce the same results as getting a different IP . hence different Mac address.

No it does not make a difference in MY case.

»www.fox.com/shows.htm

take your pic

was also having problems with anything here as well and they do not use move networks.

»www.nbc.com/shows/

24.178.10.1
24.178.13.1
24.178.9.129
these are the default gateway's that i cycle though.

yes i have some charter Ip's blocked there not required for my stuff to work.

Yes it id occur at he same time the 71. been hiiting me still ever since. what is it going on 48 or 72 hours

Not sure why but when i first did the mandriva it played when i tried agian it would not.
However i know that the move networks was somthing just recently added . and does not explain the nbc or usa network that would not play as well.
And yes it just a flash app Bs if ya ask me lol.

the ip's that you want i will not post. Unless some one can gaurante i will never ever get agian.

No error popped up it plays the comercials just fine but will never play the acaul vidio.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:04:07 EDT

anon posted : How did you get the Move Video player to run on MandrivaOne? It seems there are only Windows executables and MacOS plugins available for the Move Player..... it doesn't appear to just be a flash app.

What IPs did you get the movies to play on and which IPs don't play?

Did any errors pop up on the player when it didn't play? What exactly happened with the Move Player?

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:23 EDT

anon posted :

said by koma3504:

Oh and who the heck says i have not used a live boot cd

MandrivaOne is still in my Cd rom. it has flash installed by default.

produced same results.

Great progress, you booted off a LiveCD and ran some tests... now did you bypass your firewall, multiple routers, and connect your PC direct to the cable modem when you did that? or did your boot off the CD with your PC behind your firewall and multiple routers? Yes, it makes a difference.

When your public IP changes is it a different subnet? If it is a different subnet, the public default gateway normally changes. Do you have ANY Charter IPs currently blocked on your firewall?

Can you atleast post the links for the specific videos you're have trouble streaming from so others can try it? If it's a Charter issue, someone in your local area may be able to duplicate it. If it's a server issue, lots of people should be able to duplicate it.

Also why do you think the 71. IP has anything to do with this problem of no video streaming from some or one site? How are these two issues related? Did they start occurring at the same time? Can you post a traceroute to that IP?

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:03:34 EDT

Rampage522 posted : Just curious what, if any, response you've gotten from the guys in the Charter Direct forum. It seems like they would be able to cut through some of the noise and help you get to the bottom of the issue. At least get you an explanation for why changing IPs suddenly makes the problem disappear. Weird stuff, I agree.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:27:42 EDT

koma3504 posted :

said by mrbelvedere:

LISTEN TO THE ADVICE EVERYONE IS TRYING TO GIVE YOU INSTEAD OF SWEARING UP AND DOWN THAT IT ISN'T YOUR RIDICULOUSLY OVER-COMPLICATED (and pointless) SETUP.

Go over here »All Things Unix

and tell them that smoothwall is a pointless setup.

Oh and who the heck says i have not used a live boot cd

MandrivaOne is still in my Cd rom. it has flash installed by default.

produced same results.

WTF i can not understand is why this is being hashed out.

it started working with a New IP nothing else changed here
SO i say again WTF.
Now I have the 71. IP nailing the fuck out of my box to port 80

NOw ihave one more question Why do you think my network is RIDICULOUSLY OVER-COMPLICATED (and pointless) SETUP.
????

After ya answer well continue the discussion.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:38:14 EDT

mrbelvedere posted : if you're so worried about it then maybe you should try the following:

LISTEN TO THE ADVICE EVERYONE IS TRYING TO GIVE YOU INSTEAD OF SWEARING UP AND DOWN THAT IT ISN'T YOUR RIDICULOUSLY OVER-COMPLICATED (and pointless) SETUP.

said by RR User :

I'd suggest connecting your PC direct to modem, bypassing your firewall and multiple routers, and testing if that works.... but that's a lost cause.

You should first duplicate the problem with a basic, clean, trustworthy setup, which you don't have. As a tech I'd bring in a laptop booted off a Linux live thumb drive or CD and connect it straight to the modem. If I duplicate the issue I look at the modem and upstream, but if the problem is gone look at everything connected downstream of the modem.

or you could keep ignoring helpful advice and blaming it on the boogieman...

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:28:11 EDT

koma3504 posted :

said by mrbelvedere:

"paranoia paranoia everybody's comin to get me"

Has nothing at all to do with it.

What it does have to do with is My internet is not working as it should be. even though charter gets like 267 bucks a mounth here.

I should be able to stream vidio no problem.
I have only used this much bandwith so for this mounth
Today: 49.2 MB / 763.5 MB (Out / In)
Month: 1.5 GB / 35.4 GB (Out / In)

That Non whoisable ip should not be hitting my connection going on 16 hours.

Plus it runs the rescources up on the Box.

Not to mention If i have to trouble shoot somthing i have to sift though more pages of logs.
Yea some times something can go amiss and i have to go find out why.

like club penquin for example wont work unless i open the ports. looking at the firewall logs it tells me what port is being blocked.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:10:38 EDT

mrbelvedere posted : "paranoia paranoia everybody's comin to get me"

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:05:27 EDT

koma3504 posted : Oh yes RR User said this

You should first duplicate the problem with a basic, clean, trustworthy setup, which you don't have

Looks like They said i was infected to me.

Yea no kidding but i have the same gateway and i only use open dns dns servers. Except i did use a couple of level3 dns servers for trouble shooting.

Ok if my complex setup was blocking somthing it would have continued to block it even after i got a new ip.
Using smoothwall as a router lol.

Basic has nothing to do with it when I get a new ip and it works but would not with the old one.

How does the 71. have no realtion it is still hitting my connection going on 12 houirs solid about every 3 seconds or so

Oh and all the ip's associated with the static.unknown.charter.net i just checked like 10 of them and they all look up to be like

MAINT-CHTR-WD Charter Communications, Western Division

I am not even in the western division.

look at the time stams on how frequent it happens.

00:56:59 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3493 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:11 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3587 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:14 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4186 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:17 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4186 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:23 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4186 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:27 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3703 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:29 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4302 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:32 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4302 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:38 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4302 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:43 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3820 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:44 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4418 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:47 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4418 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:53 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4418 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:59 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4535 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:57:59 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3936 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:02 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4535 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:08 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4535 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:11 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4053 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:14 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4628 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:17 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4628 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:23 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4628 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:27 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4169 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:29 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4744 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:32 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4744 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:38 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4744 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)
00:58:44 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 4860 24.178.xx.xx 80(WWW-HTTP)

I am about to mirror it back to them

odd how it is only hitting port 80
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:35:16 EDT

anon posted : 1st. Nobody ever said YOU were infected.

2nd. Changing IPs also brings with it new gateway and DNS IPs among others. It's possible your complex firewall/router setup is unintentionally blocking something important or related to your problem, like particular IPs, domains, or ports.

3rd. Your setup may be clean to you, but it's not basic and not trustworthy to others for troubleshooting.

4th. I didn't see anyone asking you for info. In which case, it's unlikely to be phishing.

5th. Doesn't matter where another poster is from or if they are bot netted, it doesn't affect YOUR problem.

6th. The 71. IP has no relation to your problem. static.unknown.charter.net appears to be a default name for Charter equipment that isn't named more specifically. That explains all the IPs associated with it.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:54:49 EDT

koma3504 posted : First of all what the hell would a infected system have to do with just a few vids??

Second of all How is it changing Ip's to one i have neve had resolve the issue.
If the problem was with my network or my computer then changing IP's I would have had the same problem.
Third of all I do have a clean setup and network!!!!
Fourth of all i think your just phishing for information.
I notice you are posting from a RR conection which i get plenty of blocks from Maybee your the one that is bot netted.

And I see you did not comment about hthe 71. ip hmm.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:04:48 EDT

anon posted : I'd suggest connecting your PC direct to modem, bypassing your firewall and multiple routers, and testing if that works.... but that's a lost cause.

So Good Luck!!!

BTW, thinking that IPs are "corrupted" or Charter has a router with "corrupted" firmware or someone has access to Charter headend gear and the ONLY thing affected is video streaming from certain sites is really the wrong troubleshooting path.

You should first duplicate the problem with a basic, clean, trustworthy setup, which you don't have. As a tech I'd bring in a laptop booted off a Linux live thumb drive or CD and connect it straight to the modem. If I duplicate the issue I look at the modem and upstream, but if the problem is gone look at everything connected downstream of the modem.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:23:56 EDT

koma3504 posted : I am basicaly using the clone mac address option.

on a side note Im getting nailed by this Ip for hours now.

16:23:19 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2756 24.178.xxx.xxx 80(WWW-HTTP)
16:23:35 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2872 24.178.xxx.xxx 80(WWW-HTTP)
16:23:36 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3470 24.178.xxx.xxx 80(WWW-HTTP)
16:23:39 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3470 24.178.xxx.xxx 80(WWW-HTTP)
16:23:45 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3470 24.178.xxx.xxx 80(WWW-HTTP)
16:23:51 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 2988 24.178.xxx.xxx 80(WWW-HTTP)
16:23:51 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3586 24.178.xxx.xxx 80(WWW-HTTP)
16:23:54 eth0 » - TCP 71.91.172.94 3586 24.178.xxx.xxx 80(WWW-HTTP)

which looks up to be static.unknown.charter.com

ip numbers using ptr to this host
24.107.255.255
24.158.238.136
24.158.238.194
24.159.175.24
24.177.28.250
24.179.69.154
24.179.70.47
24.179.91.88
24.196.26.103
24.196.26.123
24.196.26.251
24.197.1.206
24.197.1.239
24.197.12.67
24.197.12.88
24.197.13.126
24.197.2.82
24.197.5.130
24.197.5.78
24.197.7.218
24.197.9.48
24.205.199.208
24.216.0.0
24.216.0.255
24.216.52.215
24.216.53.170
24.216.53.219
24.216.53.30
24.216.54.0
24.216.54.11
24.216.54.193
24.216.54.252
24.216.54.255
24.216.55.3
66.168.189.131
66.168.189.4
66.190.129.252
66.190.131.32
66.190.131.61
66.190.139.98
66.190.141.152
66.190.142.18
66.190.97.120
66.190.97.84
66.190.98.24
66.190.98.76
68.113.100.7
68.113.102.103
68.113.102.148
68.113.103.75
68.113.104.160
68.113.104.60
68.113.105.130
68.113.105.138
68.113.106.161
68.113.107.121
68.113.107.218
68.113.108.132
68.113.113.112
68.113.114.177
68.113.116.52
68.113.117.226
68.113.117.82
68.113.121.171
68.113.123.120
68.113.123.188
68.113.123.230
68.113.126.114
68.113.126.41
68.113.127.7
68.113.127.92
68.117.144.59
68.117.144.63
68.117.146.245
68.117.146.250
68.117.147.106
68.117.147.177
68.117.147.179
68.117.147.237
68.117.151.5
68.117.152.244
68.117.153.244
68.117.153.66
68.117.155.101
68.117.157.57
68.117.158.141
68.117.158.34
68.117.160.117
68.117.160.242
68.117.160.42
68.117.160.56
68.117.162.111
68.117.162.190
68.117.162.27
68.117.162.84
68.117.163.117
68.117.242.213
68.117.249.72
68.117.252.156
68.119.0.139
68.119.0.165
68.119.1.113
68.119.12.158
68.119.12.68
68.119.13.206
68.119.13.215
68.119.13.30
68.119.14.125
68.119.14.89
68.119.15.147
68.119.2.140
68.119.2.219
68.185.240.124
68.185.240.241
68.185.241.128
68.185.243.130
68.185.244.11
68.185.244.250
68.185.244.79
68.185.245.211
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:06:37 EDT

anon posted : how are u changing ip?

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:29:30 EDT

koma3504 posted : Acually no im not logging anything from the install.charter website.

But what i am haveing a problem is is any show up on fox.com that i watch. I cannot watch.
Odd thing is i went to watch kitchen nightmares and i can watch that show. Ok so i try and go watch house it wont work.
SO i go back to kitchen nightmares and it would not work.
so i get a new IP anad i can watch kitchen nightmares agian.

Very Very Odd.
Also cannot watch bones ,lie to me, frindge

The last time this odd behavior happen i finally got a IP that i have never had before. And every thing worked as it should.

now i cannot get a new IP for **** i keep going though the very same ip's no matter what i try.
there is 7 of the ip's

any ideas????

speeds are fine now.

edit:

Now that I have a brand new Ip that i have never had before
everything seems to be working as it should so WTF??

All that was needed was to get a new ip.

So what is going on that makes stuff break with all the other ip's that i can get and have used before ??

really makes me wonder what is going on Is those Ip's in question getting corupted??
If so what is corrupting them??
Is it the charter router they reside on getting corrupted firmware??
Or is it that someone filtering stuff that I do online ??{perhaps someone has access to somthing on charter's head end that is not suppose to have access to}

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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:39:17 EDT

mrbelvedere posted : closer to the keller side and no problems at all. happened to me a couple weeks ago and was a line leak...although i'm sure yours is still probably charter's install website trying to attack your internets.

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:44:20 EDT

RAZ Black posted : Service has been down all afternoon... tv and internet, thank god i dont have the phone service too or i would not have been able to even call it in.
... btw, tv just came online at 5:40pm but i am still surfing on my trusty Nokia E71.
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:23:19 EDT

psafux posted : or nobody else from your area is on this website.

did you call in yet?
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Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:18:37 EDT

koma3504 posted : well i suppose since no one else is reporting it it must be just my connection. hmm???

Re: [HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:39:43 EDT

psafux posted : no wild conspiracy theories this time?

wait about 45-60 minutes and call in. if theres a known issue, they should have some info by then, or at least some other callers to be confident enough to say there is an issue.
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[HSI] Fort worth

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:35:24 EDT

koma3504 posted : Anyone else in the fort worth area having connection and or speed problems. or in the North Richland Hills texas area??

And for some odd reason i cannot get to any sppedtest site close to me??

thanks.