December 04, 2003
Security? What security?

As of posting this entry, this still worked..

[kasia@cygnus ~]$ traceroute bell.ca

traceroute to bell.ca (198.235.69.11), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets

1 gw (66.198.51.97)
0.374 ms 0.302 ms 0.254 ms
<snip>

6 bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia. (206.108.110.177)
22.558 ms 22.508 ms 22.507 ms

7 bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia. (206.108.101.65)
22.542 ms 22.527 ms 22.482 ms

<snip>

[spotted on dslreports.com]

Posted December 04, 2003 11:26 PM in Funnies
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Comments
On December 4, 2003 11:59 PM Peter added:

Ho ho ho!!!

Never piss off a Canadian network engineer: even if they work for you!

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On December 5, 2003 03:42 PM Steve Friedl added:

Turns out that ARIN got hijacked, not Bell.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8688414~mode=flat#8692294

It was fun while it lasted :-)

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On December 5, 2003 07:00 PM Andreas Häber added:

Funny :)
I got a different reply here (in Norway):
tic-toc-guys-hopefully-you-have-this-fixed-soon.
bell-nexxia.net [206.108.103.121]

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On December 7, 2003 03:23 PM Princess Joanna added:

Sweet. God bless canadians. This is the equivalent to us never locking our doors.

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Riz's Waste of Bandwidth:bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit
Someone must have gotten P.O-ed and done this. If you run a traceroute on bell.ca (good old Canada) you will find the following: [woohooo@TacoBell woohooo]$ traceroute bell.ca 11 bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia. (206.108...
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December 5, 2003 09:52 AM
Sean's Obsessions:Trust a telco to be secure
$ /usr/sbin/traceroute bell.ca traceroute: Warning: bell.ca has multiple addresses; using 198.235.69.11 traceroute to bell.ca (198.235.69.11), 30 hops max, 38...
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December 5, 2003 09:54 AM