Mystery of IP Numbers being read over Tri- State Area Radio Networks Solved.

I received a Phone Call last week from Stan Gordan the famous UFO researcher in Pa.

 He received  a Email from a concerned Radio Station Listener  in the Chestnut Ridge area and she was listening to Radio Jack on 98.7  when music stopped and a strong European  sounding voice came on and started saying 192.168.254.1  for several minutes which included the dots between the numbers  Stan called me because he knew I take care of stations and thought it might be one I take care of and he was correct .

A couple evenings before this happened I was listening to late night Radio Host Clyde Lewis and his show Ground Zero and people where calling his show and concerned because they where also hearing these IP numbers being repeated on stations they listen too.

Could it be Hacker? Aliens? The Government trying to take over the networks? Was  it Russian hackers or Spy's ? If you ever listen to shortwave you will here "The Numbers Man" who repeats lists of numbers used by spy to Communicate .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Well after all the noise quieted down and I did some research into it and making calls to networks and other engineers I know . I found out what it was .

Its called a Barix Box

Its used used by networks and stations to deliver music and talk content over standard internet service
using AoIP  Audio over Internet 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBoS20Ht4o#action=share

 So what happened is when a Barix box looses it power and reboots it will acquire a new IP address using DHCP  if set for DHCP it then announces its new IP Number  and apparently somewhere in the network that evening a bunch of Barix Boxes rebooted and started delivering there IP location .

You can turn the feature off so it does not announce the IP but this was apparently not done. 

I have a Barix box at one of sites I maintain , but never installed or programmed it and when I  rebooted it and that strong sounding voice came on .

So it was not Aliens , Spy's ,Russians or government just a simple glitch on the network being delivered over the internet. 

But in today's age of conspiracy you can see why people started freaking out. 

Of course there was a very strongly worded letter from FCC few months back about Barix Box security and putting strong Passwords on them after some one hacked into one at a Radio station in California and started playing a Porno Movie over the radio station.  Hackers are every where so strong passwords and firewalls are a must.