[AusNOG] iinet secret SA gateway - reg. cust. with iinet GW 203.217.8.255 is in Tas ?

[Mark Tees]

It’s a secret proxy ARP’d anycast’d BNG gateway.

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 12:04, Karl Kloppenborg <k at rl.ag> wrote:

> Just checking, it’s Friday yes?
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> *Date: *Friday, 16 February 2024 at 12:58 pm
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> *Subject: *[AusNOG] iinet secret SA gateway - reg. cust. with iinet GW
> 203.217.8.255 is in Tas ?
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> G'Day Guys
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> I'm a newbie here so hope !'m ! breaking any rules posting about a LAN ?
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> I was checking a regional SA iinet DHCP set static IP config.& noticed
> that the GW is 203.217.8.255 in Tasmania.
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> They are iinet customer 4 15+ years & have 9 static IPs
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> If I tracert 203-217-8-bcast.perm.iinet.net.au ( 203.217.8.255 ) the 1st
> few hops r prefix 'adl-' so IT seems that having a state prefix is
> important at iiNET as far as host naming conventions go.
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> Customer has a photo & screen shot of the router they had setup approx. 10
> years ago & GW ( again DHCP set ) from this setup is a host with the prefix
> 'adl-'
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> iinet bus. support are saying ' No Problem ' to fix & will not provide a
> Gateway IP 4 SA customers, but will provide DNS server IPs
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> I was part of a team that managed the most popular website in the southern
> hemisphere & the largest windows server / vmware network in the southern
> hemisphere so I know about vmotion etc. & why we need to keep secrets but
> why does iinet have a secret SA gateway !!!
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> Any1 else in SA who has an iinet customer & can check their routers GW IP ?
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> TIA
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