Hopper "suspicious activity"

[jackdemcak]

On May 4, 2019 at 00:15 pacific time, my BitDefender internet monitor posted the following notification:

"BOX A.1 has detected that Dish Hopper DVR (Family Room) attempted a connection to a suspicious remote location 208.30.75.64."

The remote site times out when I tried to access it.

If this is a legitimate request by Dish I will allow the connection to be made, otherwise the site will continue to be blocked from my network.

Any ideas as to what is going on?

 

[Tampa8]

Russian hacking.

 

[Tampa8]

https://bgp.he.net/ip/208.30.75.64

208.30.75.64 - callback.uplinkdata.com - United States - Sprint - IP address geolocation

 

[ncted]

On May 4, 2019 at 00:15 pacific time, my BitDefender internet monitor posted the following notification:

"BOX A.1 has detected that Dish Hopper DVR (Family Room) attempted a connection to a suspicious remote location 208.30.75.64."

The remote site times out when I tried to access it.

If this is a legitimate request by Dish I will allow the connection to be made, otherwise the site will continue to be blocked from my network.

Any ideas as to what is going on?

It is phoning home:

$ whois 208.30.75.64
...
# start

NetRange: 208.30.75.0 - 208.30.75.255
CIDR: 208.30.75.0/24
NetName: SPRINT-D01E4B
NetHandle: NET-208-30-75-0-1
Parent: SPRINTLINK-BLKS (NET-208-0-0-0-1)
NetType: Reassigned
OriginAS:
Customer: Echostar (C01085106)
RegDate: 1998-06-22
Updated: 2005-05-09
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/208.30.75.0


CustName: Echostar
Address: 90 Inverness Dr. East
City: Englewood
StateProv: CO
PostalCode: 80112
Country: US
RegDate: 1998-06-22
Updated: 2011-03-19
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/C01085106

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

It’s reporting back set top box health.

It’s legit.


Sent from my iPhone using the SatelliteGuys app!

 

[HipKat]

It’s reporting back set top box health.

It’s legit.


Sent from my iPhone using the SatelliteGuys app!

Exactly!

 

[jackdemcak]

Thanks all for letting me know what is going on. I will tell my system to allow the connection.