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scimmiamagia
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27 days ago

Does anyone know who Blix Solutions are?

I have just restarted my router and my external IP has changed.

When looking up the IP using Whois, it says it relates to Blix Solutions?  Who are Blix Solutions and what relevance do they have to Virgin Media and my external IP address?  They seem to be based in Normay, though another site suggests Estomia.

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@blixsolutions.no' inetnum: 185.41.242.0 - 185.41.242.255 netname: GB-BLIXLONDON descr: Blix Solutions - London country: GB geoloc: 51.509865 -0.118092 language: EN admin-c: BLIX-RIPE tech-c: BLIX-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: BLIX-MNT created: 2017-01-28T13:58:07Z last-modified: 2018-08-02T09:17:55Z source: RIPE role: RIPE MANAGER address: Jerikoveien 26, N-1067 OSLO admin-c: EH752-RIPE tech-c: BLIX nic-hdl: BLIX-RIPE abuse-mailbox:

@blixsolutions.no mnt-by: BLIX-MNT created: 2012-08-29T12:30:38Z last-modified: 2020-08-04T09:12:02Z source: RIPE # Filtered

 

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  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    Very Insightful Person
    27 days ago

    Possibly the have sold a range of IP4 addresses to VM. 

    • Buffer6's avatar
      Buffer6
      Legend
      22 days ago

      Blix Solutions appears to be a company that provides IP address management and related services. Based on the RIPE Database information, they have a presence in London, UK, and their administrative address is listed in Oslo, Norway. It's possible that Virgin Media has acquired or leased a range of IP addresses from Blix Solutions for their network.

      Your external IP address changing after restarting your router is normal behavior, especially if your ISP uses dynamic IP allocation. If the IP address now points to Blix Solutions, it could be part of Virgin Media's arrangement with them.

      • scimmiamagia's avatar
        scimmiamagia
        Joining in
        22 days ago

        Thanks @buffer6.  However, I have not restarted my router and the IP address has gone back to it's previous static dynamic IP.

  • scimmiamagia's avatar
    scimmiamagia
    Joining in
    22 days ago

    Very odd.  The IP address assigned has now reverted back to the previous IP address...

    Are there any Virgin engineers on this forum who could shed any light on this otherwise there might have been a security breach somewhere.

    • cje85's avatar
      cje85
      Wise owl
      22 days ago

      Are you using a VPN (perhaps unknowingly, since all kinds of browsers and security software have their own VPNs these days)? Blix Solutions appears to be used by various VPN providers. 

    • Roger_Gooner's avatar
      Roger_Gooner
      Alessandro Volta
      22 days ago

      Can't be a  security breach as your WAN IP address is from VM's DHCP server, so very difficult to change - and doing so would be counterproductive as internet access would be lost.