Re: [Nolug] Tons of DHCPREQUEST messages in syslog

Jerald,

Sorry you had so much trouble with the @Home abuse system. Cox will strive
to enforce all abuse policies and take a proactive roll in making these
types of activities minimal.

Charles

On 1/8/02 10:39 PM, "Jerald Sheets" <questy@captured.com> wrote:

> Well, ya know....
>
> I've been forwarding emails to abuse@home.com culled from my Portsentry
> log for over a year now without so much as a "Thank You" from them. I
> *only* send portscans that come *FROM* @home customers, and are
> maliciously concentrating on specific ports. It looks for SirCam and
> other associated worm signatures, and reports them as such.
>
> What did I get from them, though? Grief. Blocked ports. Lagging 'net
> times. (I mean after all, how many of us in Denham Springs are actually
> on this segment anyways. I think I'm one of the few with teeth.)
>
> I've told folk on many occasions that @home should look into the way tht
> folks at Roadrunner do it. Folks in clubs that do their own support
> (LUGs especially) got a $10 discount on their service, but got no
> support. These folk got their statics for Linux at half price too. If
> you were a demonstratable industry professional, you'd also get a
> discount.
>
> I'm sticking with @home through this, but with the DSL providers going
> 768 both ways and a static IP for $79, I'm more willing to shut off all
> my cable services and go the way of the copper pair...
>
> --JMS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@patientcarerx.com
> [mailto:owner-nolug@patientcarerx.com] On Behalf Of HSI System Engineer
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:18 PM
> To: nolug@patientcarerx.com
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Tons of DHCPREQUEST messages in syslog
>
> Ron,
>
> Another reason the lease is so short is to drive the people that use
> re-directing services nuts. :-)
>
> Oh, and everyone can expect the network monitoring and abuse enforcement
> to
> be diligent. This is the network management aspect I have been trying
> to
> increase for some time. Once we are able to manage all aspects of our
> network (once we are off of the @Home network) we will all benefit.
>
> Charles Jouglard
> HSD/HSI System Engineer
> Cox Communications LoUiSiAna, LLC
> (504) 390-4432
>
>
>
>
> On 1/8/02 9:35 PM, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@home.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Tuesday 08 January 2002 09:18 pm, HSI System Engineer wrote:
>>> The IP lease has been shortened until after the cut-over. After that
>>> time the computer IP lease will remain at four (4) hours.
>>
>> Hours?????? Not days????? Why so short?
>>
>>> On 1/8/02 3:27 PM, "Scott Harney" <scott_harney@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@home.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> probably in preparatoin for the cutover. they'll likely go back to
>>>> one week lease times. And then your ip will rarely change.
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday 08 January 2002 09:07 am, Joey Kelly wrote:
>>>>>>> dhclient-2.2.x: bound to 24.181.111.92 -- renewal in 124239
>>>>>>> seconds.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ugh --- that's 39.5 hours.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's even worse on my NT box! Cox must have changed something,
>>>>> because before Christmas, the lease was 1 week...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cox Guy: is Cox moving towards the "10 minute lease", then change
>>>>> address, like ATT does, or is it in preparation for the cutover,
>>>>> so that there won't be long-lasting leases cutover?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>
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