… and it's back. Just to confirm, it is indeed user 'rviewsxr' with no
password.
$ 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:
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:route-server.newyork.ny.ibone#
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 1:29 PM, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
