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ReadyCloud replace my ReadyNAS admin page with a new IP address
Since Monday this week I noticed that my Mac ReadyCloud app, when clicking on the admin page link, takes me to "http://5.29.133.212/admin" WHICH IS REALLY STRANGE SINCE I DID NOT ENTER THAT IP. The correct IP, on my local network, still is accessible when entered separately.
Is this a security concern? How might this have happened?
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ReadyCloud and Remote use (and always have used) 5.x.x.x addresses for its VPN.
Back in the day, those addresses were reserved for "experimental use" so they were safe to use on a private network. As the internet ran out of IPv4 addresses, they were reclaimed, and are now used as public internet addresses in the Middle East and Europe. However, Netgear has yet to change the address range they use in ReadyCloud.
There is no security issue (though if you use ReadyCloud, you of course are trusting Netgear to keep it secure).
The impact is that there are some internet websites (any that use 5.x.x.x addresses) that you can no longer reach after you install ReadyCloud. And if you happened to live in Yakum Israel, you might actually have 5.29.133.212 as your router's IP address - which would really mess you up.
Interesting....
Any idea how to get ReadyCloud's 'Admin Page' link to point to my ReadyNAS instead?
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