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At one point in the early 2000s, Comcast's internal network wasn't internal. IIRC, everything (workstations, servers, printers, etc.) had a 24.x.x.x address wit
by meepmorp 3y ago
At one point in the early 2000s, Comcast's internal network wasn't internal. IIRC, everything (workstations, servers, printers, etc.) had a 24.x.x.x address with no firewall or other mitigations in place; you could directly connect to arbitrary ports on any corporate machine, from anywhere. And they weren't exactly on top of patching.
- xyst 3y agoBack when ICANN was just giving any company /8 blocks of IPV4 addresses
- grepfru_it 3y agoComcast didn’t own 24/8, @Home did. Not sure if Comcast was part of @Home. @Home was a coalition of cable providers who didn’t have the technical knowledge or funds to implement their own cable ISP. FWIW, when Comcast finally bought out our neighborhood cable co (mid-2005ish), we never got 24/8 addresses Also throwing more water on your story, Comcast’s internal network was entirely 10/8 for a very long time. Around 2008 or so they went to ipv6 because they ran out of private addresses.
- mixdup 3y agoComcast was an @Home provider (as was AT&T Broadband, which merged with Comcast in the early days) It's entirely possible that as a Comcast customer parent OP was on @home
- meepmorp 3y ago> Not sure if Comcast was part of @Home. Comcast was one of the cable companies that founded @Home. This would've been about 5 years before Comcast bought out Adelphia. > Also throwing more water on your story, Comcast’s internal network was entirely 10/8 for a very long time Dunno, maybe I'm wrong and you actually know more about the network setup at center square 23 years ago.