[Cialug] 302 redirect oddity

[Tom Pohl]

It appears that they are proxying your internet connection.

telnet 69.66.3.2 80
Trying 69.66.3.2...
Connected to 69.66.3.2.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 404 Not found
Server: PorchLight/52.0.16116.912
Connection: close
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 0


Googling for porchlight server I come up with Front Porch Communications who explain that your ISP might be trying to deliver a message to you :)
http://www.frontporch.com/how_it_works.html

-Tom


On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Michael Watson wrote:

> Can someone give me a clue why  302 errors are being redirected to somewhere within Iowatelecom's IP address range?  This happens with browsers, if it's not a direct link it immediately jumps to "Waiting for 69.66.3.2..." (Firefox) and eventually times out (several minutes).  The wget eventually comes back to the prompt.
> 
> root[araner]~> wget http://www.slashdot.org
> --2010-03-17 18:18:50--  http://www.slashdot.org/
> Resolving www.slashdot.org... 216.34.181.48
> Connecting to www.slashdot.org|216.34.181.48|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: http://69.66.3.2/PASV/E8D778C2E32A16422662B19C8EFB5E19/ [following]
> --2010-03-17 18:18:50--  http://69.66.3.2/PASV/E8D778C2E32A16422662B19C8EFB5E19/
> Connecting to 69.66.3.2:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ^C
> 
> 
> 
> It's possible (perhaps likely) something on my PC (SuSE 11.2), but other than updating Firefox to 3.6 the other day (it's not the only browser affected, however), not much has changed internally lately.  Removing 'search iowatelecom.net' from resolv.conf didn't make any difference, the rest looks like:
> 
> nameserver 8.8.8.8
> nameserver 4.2.2.6
> nameserver 208.67.222.222
> nameserver 208.67.220.220
> nameserver 69.66.0.25
> 
> Running nmap -O against the IP comes up with about 800 open TCP ports, but couldn't come up with a suggestion of what kind of box it is.
> 
> Yahoo Mail works, Slashdot doesn't.  I'm not a DNS guy.  Any ideas would be welcome, online or off.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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