Monthly Archives: June 2022
Router Come Back!
Everyone was complaining about the Internet not working today. First the IP based television, then other devices dropped off of the WiFi network and couldn’t log in.
I looked at the logs and indeed I found some suspicious activity.
Hmm, these lines don’t look right to me. They are all coming in on port 80 and I’m not running any webservers.
So the first thing I did was turn off the port-forwarding to port 80 that was still turned on in my router for some reason. I used it a couple of years ago for an experimental website I was running and didn’t turn the service back off when I was finished. That was dumb!
I searched online to see if there was anything else I should know. This article suggested disabling the UPnP service. Mine was on by default, so I turned that off too.
I’m hoping no real damage was done to the router or my network. I hate the fact that I don’t know precisely why our attempts to login to the router did not work with known-good passwords. But after I reset the password, everyone was able to get logged in again using the new one.
Hopefully my fix will work for a while and we won’t have any more unwelcome visitors.
Starting a sketchbook
Pope Francis & Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit will never tell you that on your journey everything is going just fine. … No, he corrects you; he makes you weep for your sins; he pushes you to change, to fight against your lies and deceptions, even when that calls for hard work, interior struggle and sacrifice,” Pope Francis said in his homily on June 5.
“Whereas the evil spirit, on the contrary, pushes you to always do what you think and you find pleasing. He makes you think that you have the right to use your freedom any way you want. Then, once you are left feeling empty inside – it is bad, this feeling of emptiness inside, many of us have felt it – and when you are left feeling empty inside, he blames you, becomes the accuser, and throws you down, destroys you.”