An ISP conundrum with websites getting another IP than mine from my surfing.

mkk · Feb 23, 2009, 04:19 PM

For what might have been a couple of days to I'm guessing a week, my ISP(small local firm) has had a funny in their system which made websites and possibly other communications detect a very different IP number from my access rather than the one I really had. It was still in a range owned by the ISP and in the subnet of the primary DNS server, but in a completely different subnet than my IP. Today they fixed whatever it was after I sent a little inquiring letter, but has yet to respond. So I'm curious if someone else might have an idea of what has been happening, just for curiousitys sake.

Perhaps they accidentally rerouted my traffic to an internal proxy or something, but haven't really got a clue about the inner workings of an ISP.

Judas · Feb 23, 2009, 08:11 PM

that's really odd

IvanV · Feb 23, 2009, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mkk

... my ISP(small local firm) has had a funny in their system ...

You mean they accidentally your IP address?

You probably got it right because I don't know what else may it be. Maybe they accidentally changed settings on the gateway so all the traffic from the users appeared to be coming from it (which would turn it into a regular proxy)?

mkk · Feb 23, 2009, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by IvanV

You mean they accidentally your IP address?

I should send another letter asking precisely that.

Feb 23, 2009, 04:19 PM	#1
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,384 Rep Power: 120 System Specs	An ISP conundrum with websites getting another IP than mine from my surfing. For what might have been a couple of days to I'm guessing a week, my ISP(small local firm) has had a funny in their system which made websites and possibly other communications detect a very different IP number from my access rather than the one I really had. It was still in a range owned by the ISP and in the subnet of the primary DNS server, but in a completely different subnet than my IP. Today they fixed whatever it was after I sent a little inquiring letter, but has yet to respond. So I'm curious if someone else might have an idea of what has been happening, just for curiousitys sake. Perhaps they accidentally rerouted my traffic to an internal proxy or something, but haven't really got a clue about the inner workings of an ISP.