Alex Rock

Today, I'm at the coworking office.

They made changes on the internet connection, and the company that manages the wifi, router, network configs, etc., changed the hardware (especially the router itself).

I tried to setup OpenDNS's custom DNS setup on my network.

And apparently, the IP address from OpenDNS is the one that the new router uses to redirect to its maintenance portal.

They told me "We've always done that without issues"
Well, it's been 8 years, lucky they didn't have issues.

Mar 19 at 1:27pmWeb
Show threadAlex Rock5d ago

I'm not against any form of legacy coding/programming/etc., because it's my job to maintain that, usually.

But staying EIGHT DAMN YEARS without realizing that they use 1.1.1.1 as "default maintenance portal IP address in our devices' networks", and that this IP address isn't "internal", it's not a "reserved IP address" defined by the IETF nor the IANA, it definitely baffles me.

They are lucky Google or Microsoft don't use this for something else.