Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
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Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 12:35 AM
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Thanks for your feedback, that's useful information to know. Will the relevant staff pick up the request from this comment/thread or so I need to make a more official request?
Thanks again
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 1:48 AM
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I am sure that this thread will be sufficient to garner assistance from a staff member...
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Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 10:17 AM
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I thought that if you were on a dynamic IP, but had turned on the Broadband Firewall in the Plusnet portal that would happen to give you a reverse IP name of username.plus.com
The Plusnet Broadband Firewall is controlled here - Broadband Firewall | Member Centre | Plusnet
I have mine set to off, and don't have time to test it this morning, so have a reverse address like x.x.x.x.dyn.plus.net - I'm sure in the past when I have turned it on, I then get a reverse of username.plus.com
Its mentioned here by @Gandalf - Re: Help with user name, account name. - Page 2 - Plusnet Community
"...To clarify the bit about the static IP you do have one we've automatically added free of charge, because the broadband firewall is activated. We'd automatically apply a static IP if you enable the broadband firewall, ..."
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 10:21 AM
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@seebee Now you mention it... Never had the BB firewall on, so that's why I always had a dynamic IP. Presumably it had to be static for the firewall to work?
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 10:25 AM - edited 18-12-2022 10:25 AM
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Yes, I believe if you turn on the firewall you will get allocated a static ip
It's to do with routing changes to allow the firewall, to work
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Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 10:51 AM
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Hopefully a staff member will show up shortly to correct my rDNS so it stops showing my personal information.
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 10:54 AM
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@DdAaNn It is Sunday - low staff levels, and posts are picked up in earlyist-latest sequence.
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 1:03 PM
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Off topic but I could only smile at the delusional concerns over security risk of a static IP address. Sure AV vendors will seek to install fear as that bolsters their sales pitch. The reality is that any assigned IP address is effectively static … unless your broadband suffers frequent and prolonged disconnections!! A dynamic IP address is assigned for the duration of the PPP session. If the PPP session break is brief, there is a good chance that the same dynamic IP address will be reacquired especially as these are now assigned in the local exchange.
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Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
18-12-2022 1:16 PM
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Thanks, @Townman . As you say, AV manufacturers need to instil fear to keep selling their 'new, improved' kit, which generally does nothing but gobble resources. I have 'Avast' installed on my Windows machine and the garbage it keeps reporting as a 'threat' makes me burst out laughing.
The Linux machine -no such garbage from Clam AV, which I often forget is there, it is so unobtrusive, in fact in my configuration, I have to manually 'wake' it if I suspect there maybe an issue - always come back clean, though.
19-12-2022 10:45 AM
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@DdAaNn - I've requested that the reverse DNS for your IP address is changed. Will likely take a day or two.
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Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
19-12-2022 5:50 PM
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@bobpullen Thanks for your help with this. I'll wait for it to be update and then mark the ticket as solved.
As a note isn't it bad practice for Plusnet to display usernames in the rDNS like this? Seems like it could easily be a security issue to be giving out usernames openly like this, even more so when usernames will often contain a users full name as is my case.
Thanks
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
19-12-2022 7:47 PM
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Now if you asked if it is wise for an account name to be used as part of the domain name on that account … such would be a more searching question about best security practices.
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Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
19-12-2022 8:22 PM
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Yep, apologies, this is what I was (rather clumsily) trying to say.
Seems as if this is something that should be looked at at a higher level than just updating the rDNS when a user stumbles across it and reports it as I did.
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
19-12-2022 8:25 PM
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Out of curiosity, I wonder how long this situation has lasted, and has it had any adverse effects during that time?
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
19-12-2022 9:17 PM
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IIRC on account sign up there is a clear warning that the account name does become exposed in one’s domain name (email address in the days of email being part of the package).
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