Delay and confusion in asigning new IP address

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kiwipawl

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#207396 22-Dec-2016 13:09

Hi All,

On checking my router 2 days ago I noticed that I were recieveing multiple DoS attacks constantly.

On recomendations from my son who is staying with us at the moment and has CCNA quals, he recomended that I contact Vodafone and ask for a IP address change, which I did. The help guy was really good and asigned us a new IP address while I were on the phone to him, the only problem being, is that it was a incorrect address and when my son tried to change it it wouldn't work.

He contacted Vodafone on my behalf and spent a considerable amount of time with them trying to sort the problem out, only to find out they had given me a incorrect IP address. Vodafone then tried to charge us for another IP address change as you are only allowed 1 free change. After alot of diccussion they agreed to give us another free one as the previous one they gave us didn't work, but it was going to take 1.5 days this time to action and if that didn't work they would send out a tech as it is most likerly the router that is at fault.

So a couple of points here, how come it takes 1.5 days to reasign another IP address when it only took 10 minutes yesterday ,all be it the wrong one.

Also if it takes 1.5 days to get the new IP address and if that doesn't work it will take another 1.5 days for a tech to come out and fix the router thats has been broken apparently by the IP address change, we will be with out the internet over the Xmas break.

So there goes the Skype calls to family and friends overseas at Xmas. Vodafone have given my son and my Wife the free data on your cell phone option if they can't fix your interenet, but as I have a 2 Degree phone not for me and running the Vive, playstation thru the celphone is really that practical.

chevrolux

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#1693797 22-Dec-2016 13:15

Vodafone, and pretty much residential ISPs, will be assigning that public IP automatically via PPP or DHCP. On your router you simply set up a PPPoE (for VDSL, Fibre & FibreX) or PPPoA (for ADSL), and the public IP will get assiged. The only difference to this I believe are some of the cable connections are still statically addressed.

The question I would be asking is why were you being DoS'd in the first place. And how did you determine there was a DoS attack going on in the first place?

kiwipawl

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#1693802 22-Dec-2016 13:23

As far as I am aware cable is still has static IP, and everything worked before changing the IP address. The Dos attacks didn't have a IP address associated to them, but what the Voda help person told me was a Mac address.

I found 29 pages of the DoS attacks details from 2 days in my router log.

Cheers Paul.

mdf

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#1693804 22-Dec-2016 13:29

FibreX cable is DHCP. Pre-fibreX cable (i.e. a Cisco or Motorola cable modem) is static.

dylanp

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#1693851 22-Dec-2016 14:06

I would recommend checking if you're eligible for Vodafone's Always Connected broadband promise https://help.vodafone.co.nz/app/answers/detail/a_id/27404/

sbiddle

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#1693856 22-Dec-2016 14:21

kiwipawl:

As far as I am aware cable is still has static IP, and everything worked before changing the IP address. The Dos attacks didn't have a IP address associated to them, but what the Voda help person told me was a Mac address.

I found 29 pages of the DoS attacks details from 2 days in my router log.

Cheers Paul.

What made you think you were suffering a DoS attack? Most people will see all sorts of random connections trying to hit their firewall. You'd typically have no record of a DoS attack on an average router.

kiwipawl

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#1693874 22-Dec-2016 15:18

sbiddle:

kiwipawl:

As far as I am aware cable is still has static IP, and everything worked before changing the IP address. The Dos attacks didn't have a IP address associated to them, but what the Voda help person told me was a Mac address.

I found 29 pages of the DoS attacks details from 2 days in my router log.

Cheers Paul.

What made you think you were suffering a DoS attack? Most people will see all sorts of random connections trying to hit their firewall. You'd typically have no record of a DoS attack on an average router.

The router log states "kernel: Blocked DoS Attack type :Synflood. , from 00:90:--:--:--:--" and I have 29 pages of these over a 2 hour period.

So I guess that is a pretty good indication of a DoS attack?

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#1694823 25-Dec-2016 08:35

kiwipawl:

So I guess that is a pretty good indication of a DoS attack?

Not really.

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