The odd-musings of Jared, the Director of Network Security for IAPS Security Services.

Greetings Every One,

I hope all of you have started the new year well and things are going as expected. Things on our side keep developing and our pursuit of better technology never rests. I made an announcement several weeks ago now that our Switzerland services would all be switching over to the L2TP system for performance and security needs. This service is now complete and fully operational. (For you Swiss Zattoo fans boy do we have a treat for you!)

Speaking of Zattoo, IAPS has acquired several French and Spanish Zattoo premium accounts and we can get more on an as-needed base. What does this mean? It means we will be able to properly open up the live streaming channels that the Zattoo High Definition package for France and Spain offers. Currently standard accounts (any one with a French or Spain ip address) that does not have a Zattoo premium account can’t watch anything because Zattoo for those countries went subscription only. So now we can properly offer accounts for these countries. Zattoo Switzerland, Germany, and United Kingdom are still free accounts for streaming with just a normal ip address from those countries. (Zattoo Switzerland offers all their countries combined into one for Swiss subscribers only and its free of charge. So Switzerland ip addresses are your best value any way you look at it.)

As I mention the more secure and data speed friendly L2TP protocol, please be advised that the L2TP system is currently offered for the following countries: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Czech Republic, France, and Finland.

I will be formally opening Finland and Lithuania hopefully by the 1st February 2010. IAPS is currently awaiting proper licensing from RIPE, which is the issuing authority for all of Europe.

As a simple matter of pure organization, last month IAPS re-categorized our VPN Services Category and also added a brand new VPN Combo Accounts category. We did this in an effort to offer a better and easier to use category layout for our store area. We hope this has fulfilled the requests we received for that.

For those of you not aware yet, during this past week we have also added Italian TV and Spanish TV to our store area.

IAPS is in beta testing phases for a new auto-dialer system that will take the manual work out of setting up a vpn connection on your local computer. Once beta testing has been completed, we will offer this system publicly. Public beta testing is not yet available but when it is, we will ask for volunteers.

As a parting note, please be advised that our 6 Month VPN Sales in our Store Area will come to an end on January 18, 2010.

Have a great rest of month folks and let us know if you need anything. Many Thanks.

Hi Folks,

The maintenance cycle for our U.S. based servers is now complete. From this point on, all vpn connections are dynamically issued which means your public ip address will change each and every time you sign in.

Folks,

Just another simple reminder that the British server transitions start this Friday and Saturday. Do not forget! Once the transition period is over, you will have to contact us to obtain the new ip addresses for each server in the United Kingdom that you are assigned to. As always, you will need to send in the first 4 lines of your original account opening email that we sent you at the time you opened your account. If you are unable to locate that email, we will present you with security questions that only you will know. This procedure is put in place to protect the integrity and safety of our networks as well as to only allow authorized individuals on our networks. Once your account has been verified, we will then issue the new ip address for your assigned server to the email address we have on file. We will not release any account information to an alternative email address at any time. Your personal safety, as well as our networks are always a security concern and we will not jeopardize either at any time. Its very important you know what your account information is as it will be requested and verified before we release any new information to you. Your account must still be in good standing and valid as well.

To reiterate, when the British networks come back online we will have come off of a 3-4 gigabit network and are being hooked up to a 16 gigabit network. This improves network connectivity, available bandwidth, and bandwidth delivery speed more than 3 times over. Whereas there may have been problem areas before, we believe these issue should be resolved after the transition period is complete. I will verify connectivity with all you folks and all of my remote support technicians will be on duty throughout the weekend to ensure that we get all of you folks back online in the shortest time possible.

For those of you that purchased dedicated ip addresses to go along with your accounts, these ip addresses will be changed over to the new network ranges. As always, there will be a primary and a secondary range available. I will personally get together with those of you that have personal ip addresses added on to your accounts and will privately issue your new ranges.

Hi Folks,

I noticed a lack of bandwidth on the U.S. based NetNewz server over the past couple of days and started submitting multiple trouble tickets to the data center. Last evening they finally conducted an investigation and found out that they put the server on the wrong network segment. Finally, they physically moved the server to the correct segment of the network. They had to allocate a new ip range to the server as well. For those of you that are currently assigned to this server, please get in contact with us for the new ip address for your vpn service. Thank you.

Hi Folks,

I don’t normally send messages out regarding surplus services that we have. However I thought I’d check with you folks first before I make a decision on returning the surplus French ip addresses we have available for our French VPN servers. We have such a large stock of French ip addresses that I’m willing to go out on a limb here and offer out yearly French VPN services at 50% off our normal rates. If you are interested in this service and have a use for a French ip address please let me know by using our secure contact page. Thank you.

P.S. For those of you interested, the yearly cost right now for dedicated French VPN access would be $67.50 USD and that covers 365 days of continuous service.

The following list of ip ranges are well known to those in the loop. However, if you see these ip address ranges visiting your site(s) your better informed as to who they are:

7.*.*.* Defense Information Systems Agency, VA
RANGE 11
11.*.*.* DoD Intel Information Systems, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington DC
RANGE 21
21. – US Defense Information Systems Agency
RANGE 22
22.* – Defense Information Systems Agency
26.* – Defense Information Systems Agency
RANGE 29
29.* – Defense Information Systems Agency
RANGE 30
30.* – Defense Information Systems Agency
136.188.0.0 – 136.197.255.255 Defense Intelligence Agency
137.130.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
137.209.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
137.210.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
137.211.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
137.212.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
137.232.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
137.233.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
137.234.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
137.235.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.1.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.3.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.4.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.5.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.6.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.7.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.8.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.9.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.10.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.11.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.12.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.13.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.15.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.16.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.17.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.18.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.19.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.20.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.21.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.22.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.23.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.25.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.26.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.27.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.28.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.29.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.30.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.31.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.32.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.33.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.34.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.35.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.36.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.37.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.38.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.39.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.40.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.41.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.42.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.43.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.44.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.45.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.46.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.47.0.0 – 140.47.255.255 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.47.0.0 – 140.48.255.255 DOD Network Information Center
140.48.0.0 – 140.48.255.255 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.49.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.50.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.51.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.52.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.53.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.54.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.55.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.56.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.57.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.58.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.59.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.60.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.61.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.62.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.63.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.64.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.65.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.66.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.67.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.68.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.69.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.70.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.71.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.72.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.73.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
140.74.0.0 – 140.74.255.255 Defense Information Systems Agency
144.233.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.234.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.235.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.236.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.237.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.238.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.239.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.240.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.241.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
144.242.0.0 Defense Intelligence Agency
152.154.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency
152.229.0.0 Defense MegaCenter (DMC) Denver
158.15.0.0 – 158.15.255.255 Defense Megacenter Huntsville
162.45.0.0 Central Intelligence Agency
162.46.0.0 Central Intelligence Agency
164.225.0.0 U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
167.44.0.0 Government Telecommunications Agency
169.252.0.0 – 169.253.0.0 U.S. Department of State
204.34.0.0 – 204.37.255.0 DOD Network Information Center
204.34.131.0 NSA NAPLES ITALY
204.34.182.0 Defense Megacenter Warner Robins

All the below are FBI controlled Linux servers & IPs/IP-Ranges
207.60.0.0 – 207.60.255.0 The Internet Access Company
207.60.2.128 – 207.60.2.255 Abacus Technology
207.60.3.0 – 207.60.3.127 Mass Electric Construction Co.
207.60.3.128 – 207.60.3.255 Peabody Proberties Inc
207.60.4.0 – 207.60.4.127 Northern Electronics
207.60.4.128 – 207.60.4.255 Posternak, Blankstein & Lund
207.60.5.64 – 207.60.5.127 Woodard & Curran
207.60.5.192 – 207.60.5.255 On Line Services
207.60.6.0 – 207.60.6.63 The 400 Group
207.60.6.64 – 207.60.6.127 RD Hunter and Company
207.60.6.128 – 207.60.6.191 Louis Berger and Associates
207.60.6.192 – 207.60.6.255 Ross-Simons
207.60.7.0 – 207.60.7.63 Eastern Cambridge Savings Bank
207.60.7.64 – 207.60.7.127 Greater Lawrence Community Action Committee
207.60.7.128 – 207.60.7.191 Data Electronic Devices, Inc
207.60.8.0 – 207.60.8.255 Sippican
207.60.9.0 – 207.60.9.31 Alps Sportswear Mfg Co
207.60.9.32 – 207.60.9.63 Escher Group Ltd
207.60.9.64 – 207.60.9.95 West Suburban Elder
207.60.9.96 – 207.60.9.127 Central Bank
207.60.9.128 – 207.60.9.159 Danick Systems
207.60.9.160 – 207.60.9.191 Alps Sportswear Mfg CO
207.60.9.192 – 207.60.9.223 BSCC
207.60.13.16 – 207.60.13.23 Patrons Insurance Group
207.60.13.40 – 207.60.13.47 Athera Technologies
207.60.13.48 – 207.60.13.55 Service Edge Partners Inc
207.60.13.56 – 207.60.13.63 Massachusetts Credit Union League
207.60.13.64 – 207.60.13.71 SierraCom
207.60.13.72 – 207.60.13.79 AI/ FOCS
207.60.13.80 – 207.60.13.87 Extreme soft
207.60.13.96 – 207.60.13.103 Eaton Seo Corp
207.60.13.112 – 207.60.13.119 C. White
207.60.13.120 – 207.60.13.127 Athera
207.60.13.128 – 207.60.13.135 Entropic Systems, INC
207.60.13.136 – 207.60.13.143 Wood Product Manufactureds Associates
207.60.13.160 – 207.60.13.167 Jamestown Distribution
207.60.13.168 – 207.60.13.175 C&M Computers
207.60.13.176 – 207.60.13.183 ABC Used Auto Parts
207.60.13.184 – 207.60.13.191 Tomas Weldon
207.60.13.192 – 207.60.13.199 Tage Inns
207.60.13.200 – 207.60.13.207 Control Module Inc
207.60.13.208 – 207.60.13.215 Hyper Crawler Information Systems
207.60.13.216 – 207.60.13.223 Eastern Bearings
207.60.13.224 – 207.60.13.231 North Shore Data Services
207.60.13.232 – 207.60.13.239 Mas New Hampshire
207.60.14.0 – 207.60.14.255 J. A. Webster
207.60.15.0 – 207.60.15.127 Trilogic
207.60.16.0 – 207.60.16.255 Area 54
207.60.18.0 – 207.60.18.63 Vested Development Inc
207.60.18.64 – 207.60.18.127 Conventures
207.60.21.0 – 207.60.21.255 Don Law Company
207.60.22.0 – 207.60.22.255 Advanced Microsensors
207.60.28.0 – 207.60.28.63 Applied Business Center
207.60.28.64 – 207.60.28.127 Color and Design Exchange
207.60.36.8 – 207.60.36.15 Shaun McCusker
207.60.36.16 – 207.60.36.23 Town of Framingham
207.60.36.24 – 207.60.36.31 AB Software
207.60.36.32 – 207.60.36.39 Seabass Dreams Too Much, Inc
207.60.36.40 – 207.60.36.47 Next Ticketing
207.60.36.48 – 207.60.36.55 Dulsi
207.60.36.56 – 207.60.36.63 The Internet Access Company
207.60.36.64 – 207.60.36.71 Maguire Group
207.60.36.72 – 207.60.36.79 Cogenex
207.60.36.88 – 207.60.36.95 AKNDC
207.60.36.96 – 207.60.36.103 McGovern election committee
207.60.36.104 – 207.60.36.111 Digital Equipment Corp
207.60.36.112 – 207.60.36.119 PTR – Precision Technologies
207.60.36.120 – 207.60.36.127 Extech
207.60.36.128 – 207.60.36.135 Manfreddi Architects
207.60.36.144 – 207.60.36.151 Parent Naffah
207.60.36.152 – 207.60.36.159 Darling Dolls Inc
207.60.36.160 – 207.60.36.167 Wright Communications
207.60.36.168 – 207.60.36.175 Principle Software
207.60.36.176 – 207.60.36.183 Chris Pet Store
207.60.36.184 – 207.60.36.191 Fifteen Lilies
207.60.36.192 – 207.60.36.199 All-Com Technologies
207.60.37.0 – 207.60.37.31 Cardio Thoracic Surgical Associates, P. A.
207.60.37.32 – 207.60.37.63 Preferred Fixtures Inc
207.60.37.64 – 207.60.37.95 Apple and Eve Distributors
207.60.37.96 – 207.60.37.127 Nelson Copy Supply
207.60.37.128 – 207.60.37.159 Boston Optical Fiber
207.60.37.192 – 207.60.37.223 Fantasia&Company
207.60.41.0 – 207.60.41.255 Infoactive
207.60.48.0 – 207.60.48.255 Curry College
207.60.62.32 – 207.60.62.63 Alternate Power Source
207.60.62.64 – 207.60.62.95 Keystone Howley-White
207.60.62.128 – 207.60.62.159 Bridgehead Associates LTD
207.60.62.160 – 207.60.62.191 County Supply
207.60.62.192 – 207.60.62.223 NH Board of Nursing
207.60.64.0 – 207.60.64.63 Diversified Wireless Technologies
207.60.64.64 – 207.60.64.127 Phytera
207.60.66.0 – 207.60.66.15 The Network Connection
207.60.66.16 – 207.60.66.31 Young Refrigeration
207.60.66.32 – 207.60.66.47 Vision Appraisal Technology
207.60.66.48 – 207.60.66.63 EffNet Inc
207.60.66.64 – 207.60.66.79 Entropic Systems Inc
207.60.66.80 – 207.60.66.95 Finley Properties
207.60.66.96 – 207.60.66.111 Nancy Plowman Associates
207.60.66.112 – 207.60.66.127 Northeast Financial Strategies
207.60.66.128 – 207.60.66.143 Textnology Corp
207.60.66.144 – 207.60.66.159 Groton Neochem LLC
207.60.66.160 – 207.60.66.175 Tab Computers
207.60.66.176 – 207.60.66.191 Patrons Insurance
207.60.66.192 – 207.60.66.207 Chair City Web
207.60.66.208 – 207.60.66.223 Radex, Inc.
207.60.66.224 – 207.60.66.239 Robert Austein
207.60.66.240 – 207.60.66.255 Hologic Inc.
207.60.71.64 – 207.60.71.127 K-Tech International Inc.
207.60.71.128 – 207.60.71.191 Pan Communications
207.60.71.192 – 207.60.71.255 New England College of Finance
207.60.75.128 – 207.60.75.255 Absolve Technology
207.60.78.0 – 207.60.78.127 Extech
207.60.78.128 – 207.60.78.255 The Insight Group
207.60.83.0 – 207.60.83.255 JLM Technologies
207.60.84.0 – 207.60.84.255 Strategic Solutions
207.60.94.0 – 207.60.94.15 McWorks
207.60.94.32 – 207.60.94.47 Rooney RealEstate
207.60.94.48 – 207.60.94.63 Joseph Limo Service
207.60.94.64 – 207.60.94.79 The Portico Group
207.60.94.80 – 207.60.94.95 Event Travel Management Inc
207.60.94.96 – 207.60.94.111 Intellitech International
207.60.94.128 – 207.60.94.143 Orion Partners
207.60.94.144 – 207.60.94.159 Rainbow Software Solution
207.60.94.160 – 207.60.94.175 Grason Stadler Inc
207.60.94.192 – 207.60.94.207 Donnegan System
207.60.95.1 – 207.60.95.255 The Iprax Corp
207.60.102.0 – 207.60.102.63 Corporate IT
207.60.102.64 – 207.60.102.127 Putnam Technologies
207.60.102.128 – 207.60.102.191 Sycamore Networks
207.60.102.192 – 207.60.102.255 Bostek
2?7.6?.10?.128 – 207.60.103.255 Louis Berger and Associates
207.60.104.128 – 207.60.104.191 Hanson Data Systems
207.60.106.128 – 207.60.106.255 Giganet Inc.
207.60.107.0 – 207.60.107.255 Roll Systems
207.60.108.8 – 207.60.108.15 InternetQA
207.60.111.0 – 207.60.111.31 Reading Cooperative Bank
207.60.111.32 – 207.60.111.63 Edco collaborative
207.60.111.64 – 207.60.111.95 DTC Communications Inc
207.60.111.96 – 207.60.111.127 Mike Line
207.60.111.128 – 207.60.111.159 The Steppingstone Foundation
207.60.111.160 – 207.60.111.191 Caton Connector
207.60.111.192 – 207.60.111.223 Refron
207.60.111.224 – 207.60.111.255 Dolabany Comm Group
207.60.112.0 – 207.60.112.255 The CCS Companies
207.60.116.0 – 207.60.116.255 Continental PET Technologies
207.60.122.16 – 207.60.122.23 Corey & Company Designers Inc
207.60.122.24 – 207.60.122.31 SAIC
207.60.122.32 – 207.60.122.39 Netserve Entertainment Group
207.60.122.40 – 207.60.122.47 Avici Systems Inc
207.60.122.48 – 207.60.122.55 Webrdwne
207.60.122.56 – 207.60.122.63 Reality and Wonder
207.60.122.64 – 207.60.122.71 Nishan Desilva
207.60.122.72 – 207.60.122.79 NemaSoft Inc
207.60.122.80 – 207.60.122.87 Patrick Murphy
207.60.122.88 – 207.60.122.95 Corey and Company
207.60.122.96 – 207.60.122.103 Ames Textile Corp
207.60.122.104 – 207.60.122.111 Publicom
207.60.127.0 – Northstar Technologies
207.60.128.0 – 207.60.128.255 Northstar Technologies
207.60.129.0 – 207.60.129.255 Sanga Corp
207.60.129.64 – 207.60.129.127 Fired Up Network
207.60.129.128 – 207.60.129.191 Integrated Data Solutions
207.60.129.192 – 207.60.129.255 Metanext
207.61.* WorldLinx Telecommunications, Inc., Canada
207.120.* BBN Planet, MA
RANGE 208
208.240.xxx.xxx
RANGE 209
209.35.* Interland, Inc., GA

Folks, the preliminary news from our testing locations in remote countries have been impressive on our newest server code-named “Firehawk”. This new Supermicro Superserver has now been reported to have out classed the Silverhawk server. I was personally watching Zattoo in HiQ (HD) and I even impressed with the performance of HiQ and a large screen. “Firehawk” didn’t miss a beat.

Some of you have reported issues with Channel 4 so we specifically tested that site with its newest and greatest web-based player and it streamed perfectly without buffering one time. All the other “usual suspect” sites were tested and found to be very compatible with “Firehawk” and we are very pleased. The initial setup took less than 24 hours from start to finish and the preliminary tests are now over and “Firehawk” is now on the production line as a first rate server.

Personal ip addresses are immediately available for purchase on this server. A personal ip address for your account assures that only you have access to that ip address. Personal ip addresses are good for the life of your account and only incur a one-off fee of $49.95 USD + the normal cost of your account.

Keep in mind that the British TV Sale starts tomorrow at midnight (U.K. time) and lasts for 48 hours only.

Folks, over the last 2 years I’ve seen several debates about the RuneScape game. The current theory holds that if you have an ip address that ends in .1 you have a much better better chance of winning of the game. Now I am not a player of the game myself but I’ve met several of you who are. I personally don’t believe in the theory myself but have now made available several .1, .2, .3, and .4 ip addresses.

For those of you that are hardcore gamers that believe in this theory, this design was made just for you. For those of you that need this type of ip address, please use my contact form and refer to this blog post and I’ll respond with what you need to do to obtain this service from me.