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Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
19-12-2022 9:19 PM
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Thanks, @Townman . I agree.
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
19-12-2022 10:06 PM
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I agree with the point you guys are making.
Obviously it's a privacy issue, however small. My initial concern wasn't that someone could access my PN account as such (I have a pretty strong password policy), but rather the other information it could expose - if someone can learn my personal details from the IP, this gives them more information to could then be used to gather other information or engineer various other types of attack. It might be pretty unlikely but its definitely a concern.
I agree that the threat would be even less if my full name was not my username - to be honest, I can't remember ever selecting this myself, I think I signed up to PN over the phone and the details were generated by the agent.
Anyway, I guess the main priority for me is that it is fixed in my instance, which it hopefully will be in the next few days. At a wider level though I would definitely hope PN would be aware of this and looking into correcting the policy to avoid issues in future.
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
20-12-2022 3:31 PM - edited 20-12-2022 3:39 PM
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@bobpullen@Gandalf Could you please change my account reverse DNS from my username to ip address?
Many thanks.
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
20-12-2022 4:03 PM
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@JohnDoe - that's been requested for you.
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Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
20-12-2022 4:04 PM
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@bobpullen Thank you very much.
Re: Plusnet Username publicly visible via IP Locators
20-12-2022 5:13 PM
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@bobpullen I've just checked and the rDNS has been updated, now showing as the IP address.
Thanks for your help with getting this sorted - I'll mark the issue as resolved at this stage.
Reverse DNS record change
23-12-2022 9:28 AM
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Could I have my static ip address reverse DNS record changed form my username to ip number please, I had a request (#230045885) made by Bob Pullen 3 days ago but nothing happened as yet. I just wonder if it perhaps fell through the cracks. Many thanks.
Re: Reverse DNS record change
23-12-2022 11:39 AM
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This is resolved now, Many thanks.
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