Joe,
It isn’t on Verizon to setup a firewall, especially if you have a direct public IP service. The device being attached directly to the Internet (no matter the transmission medium), must be able to protect itself. ISPs provide routers which function as a NAT/Firewall appliance, to provide a means of safety and convenience for them, but also charge you a rental fee.
Stick a Cradlepoint router or something in front of your device, if you want an external means of protection. Otherwise you’ll need to enable the Windows Firewall if it’s a Windows system, or setup iptables on Linux, ipfw/pf on *BSD, etc.
Ryan
From: JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 5:04 PM
To: ryan@rkhtech.org
Cc: TJ Trout <tj@pcguys.us>; NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Suspicious IP reporting
How do I setup a firewall when I am not a Verizon engineer?
There is a firewall via the antivirus and operating system but that's it.
Do you not understand my issue? I thought that is the real problem with the online bullies in this thread.
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Thank You,
Joe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 5:01 PM Ryan Hamel <administrator@rkhtech.org> wrote:
Joe,
The underlying premise here is, “pick your battles”. If you don’t want an IP address to access your device in anyway, setup a firewall and properly configure it to accept whitelisted traffic only, or just expose a VPN endpoint. The Internet is full of both good and bad actors that probe and scan anything and everything.
While some appreciate the notification here, others will find it annoying. We cannot report anything malicious about an IP address on the Internet, unless it does harm to us specifically, otherwise it is false reporting and does create more noise at the ISP, and waste more time getting to the underlying issue.
Ryan
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+ryan=rkhtech.org@nanog.org> On Behalf Of JoeSox
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:41 PM
To: TJ Trout <tj@pcguys.us>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Suspicious IP reporting
Do others see this online bully started by Tom? The leader has spoken so the minions follow :)
This list sometimes LOL
I think if everyone gets off their high horse, the list communication would be less noisy for the list veterans.
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Thank You,
Joe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 4:36 PM TJ Trout <tj@pcguys.us> wrote:
This seems like a highly suspect request coming from a North American network operator...?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 10:23 AM JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:
This IP is hitting devices on cellular networks for the past day or so.
I think this is the info to report it to the ISP. Any help or if everyone can report it, I would be a happy camper.
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Thank You,
Joe