-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ok ICMP and shit aside these guys are horrible at network design and implementation too. I have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out their pathetic network configuration. these guys are sharing network with three MCO as in local providers so thus its three sub-domain and they have fucked up the net-mask pretty damn well.
So i call up help-desk "a very expensive and futile phone call" after 10 minutes of explaining the guy what the fuck is wrong he tells me "sir, please double click on Internet explorer" ok i forgive his dumbness and tell him that i dont have that application and i cant even authenticate using their client he says please wait and after 5 minutes of music he says "sir, now double click on Internet explorer and see" I dont know what this guy did and claimed to do. but i clicked my phone off and decided to go on a further blindfold drive . I cant ping any of the servers as they are happily blocking all ICMP and thus cant figure out what the hell is going on. so i do a TCP-dump and try to ping and scan each and every machine on my network and then i write a script to connect to all of the ips that are left and have to figure out what the net-mask is to reach that box. I do that by switching between 3 different networks just blindly. Thanks to all my time i devoted to scanning the network for shared c:\ drives earlier this month :). I got one server to accept my user-name and password so i setted my net-mask accordingly and set up that server as my gateway. BTW the network this server is on is not supposed to accessible to me at all because My IP belongs to a different sub-domain. So these guys have defiantly fucked up somewhere or my understanding of how network works is absolute rubbish. observation : their user database seems to be central as a server of some other domain accepts my user-name and password and authenticate me. I should be given a blindfold network configurator of the month award or something or these guys should be shot. On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:51:52PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Sandip>+++ Varun Varma [05/09/03 09:22 +0530]: Sandip> Sandip>> The problem is that these guys have blocked all ICMP messages, not just Sandip>> the echo/reply messages. Sandip>> Sandip>> So, even the ICMP port unreachable messages for the traceroute UDP Sandip>> probes aren't getting through. Sandip>> Sandip>Additionally my ntp servers have stopped working and ntpdate also freaks out Sandip>because no NTP replies seem to be coming. Is tehre a problem with this too Sandip>for all Hotwire subscribers? - -- all the things we keep inside, are the things that really matter, the face puts on its best disguise, and all is well, until the heart betrays. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WPk57v3NbZTFJeIRAng7AKDgY+9fyHeJHkxqBHIgNn1mhaHMdACfcnRy kp00fzpz6mSSNCoSxa4WgTk= =yBbn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
