Re: IoT

From	Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
Newsgroups	chi.internet
Subject	Re: IoT
Date	2015-06-03 21:11 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
> Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>> My stop sign camera has been up for over three months and over 4000 cars 
>> have been captured going > 7 mph through my sign.  Yesterday my camera 
>> started sending out 10K packets per second to all kinds of external 
>> addresses.  I thought this was some kind of cloud feature that kicked in  
>> but one of the most frequent packets was a TCP SYN on port 53 to 8.8.8.8 
>> which is Google's DNS.  DNS uses UDP so those packets were already 
>> blocked before I noticed this.  A lot are simple TCP connects and 
>> disconnects to a wide range of addresses passing no traffic but 
>> happening very frequently for no apparent reason.  It's no big deal 
>> because I can simply change the camera's gateway address but I found 
>> this interesting.  The camera still works which is all that matters.  
>>
>> Has anyone heard of anything like this?  My Internet of Things device 
>> might have turned into a bot.  
> 
> it's probably trying to update itself.

Ha!

> you're wrong on DNS being UDP only, it can use TCP too.

he's wrong on quite a few things. It's peculiar he's looking at the 
packets but not inside them. The query would probably explain what's going 
on.

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Re: IoT Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2015-06-03 21:11 +0000
  Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-03 18:55 -0400
    Re: IoT Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-06-04 11:01 +0000
      Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-04 14:49 -0400
        Re: IoT Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-06-05 12:02 +0000
          Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-05 13:54 -0400
            Re: IoT Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2015-06-05 18:07 +0000
              Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-05 14:10 -0400
              Re: IoT smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2015-06-05 13:13 -0500
                Re: IoT smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2015-06-05 19:34 -0500
                Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-05 22:37 -0400
                Re: IoT Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2015-06-06 04:43 +0000
                Re: IoT Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2015-06-08 16:55 +0000
                Re: IoT smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2015-06-08 14:14 -0500
                Re: IoT smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2015-06-06 15:02 -0500
                Re: IoT Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2015-06-08 16:57 +0000
                Re: IoT smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2015-06-08 16:16 -0500
                Re: IoT Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2015-06-09 21:58 +0000
                Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-09 18:48 -0400
    Re: IoT Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2015-06-04 19:16 +0000
      Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-04 15:50 -0400
        Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-04 19:18 -0400
          Re: IoT Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2015-06-04 23:47 +0000
            Re: IoT Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> - 2015-06-05 14:07 -0400

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