Re: wireless hotel nightmare

David Taylor <djtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm on a network today that is seeing sporadic issuance of DHCP addresses
>> at a suspiciously default range like 192.168.0.1, nothing resembling the
>> address in use by most folks on the network.

> Sounds like a box perhaps doing ICS. If you do an ipconfig /all and
> have a look at the issued dns domain name, see if it's MSHOME or
> something like that, can't remember exactly what it plops there.

I'm not on a box that has one of these bogus addresses. They were mostly
visitors with laptops. Regular uses seemed unaffected, with a couple of
exceptions.

I'm not sure how many boxes there are responding to 192.168.0.xxx. What my
pingsome script was seeing as a live box is unreachable... I think.

Pinging 192.168.0.6 with 50 bytes of data:

Reply from nnn.nnn.237.181: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.6:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

That looks like a failure, but I was only parsing on the "loss" line.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5

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