Quick update: I just spoke with someone at Comcast, and they let me know they have identified a problem with the authentication and are working to resolve it.
W On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 1:11 PM, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 10:41 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail. > com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 3:35 PM, Paulo J Amaral <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, hoping someone here from Comcast can help me. I need to be able to >> login Comcast Looking Glass router in NY to check on some route advertising >> but the username and password that was previously working for the LG no >> longer seems to work. >> >> Host: route-server.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net >> >> Username: rviewsxr >> >> Password: rviews and I also tried rviewsxr >> >> If anyone knows the current login info I would appreciate it. >> >> Hah! I ran into that same issue earlier in the week — a few places >> (including some notes that I had) implied that it was a username of >> "rviewsxr" with a blank password - but also that many SSH clients, >> including OpenSSH, deal poorly with blank passwords. >> >> I had assumed that that was what I was running into, and so spent some >> time trying to figure out if it was a blank password issue, before I became >> distracted by a squirrel >> >> possibly you need some other flags to the ssh client: >> -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 (server here only offers that >> key exchange algorithm) >> -oMACS=+hmac-sha1 >> >> The server here appears to be a very old cisco type thingy :( >> > > > Yah, been there, tried that: > $ ssh ssh://rview...@route-server.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net -o > KexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 > -m hmac-sha1 > > > ******************************************************************************** > Comcast Backbone Route Server > This route server is provided by Comcast National Engineering to > provide > visibility into the Internet routing table from the perspective of > Comcast's > network. > [[SNIP]] > Login with username: rviewsxr > > Location: New York City > Network: Comcast Route Server > > ******************************************************************************** > > rview...@route-server.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net's password: > rview...@route-server.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net: Permission denied > (password). > > It does the initial handshake and I get a banner, but the password bit > foils me… > > >> (I didn't figure the passwd part out, docs appear to say the passwd >> should be: rviews - perhaps some security person made them add more >> entropy? :) ) >> > > Yah. > My notes has claimed that it was an empty password, but my notes might be > wrong. > Perhaps either they set one, changed the existing one, or the equivalent > of "PermitEmptyPasswords no" was set… > > Whatever the case this seems like a question that Comcast can answer… > W > > >> W >> >> P >> >>
