HTB Academy - funny thing I found

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noob here,

Been doing the Linux fundamentals and got to firewall configuration, but there was this funny thing that happened.

When I made a rule in the VM that dropped all traffic from 127.0.0.1 and it had me reset the VM, I decided the switch my Pwnbox location in the middle of the VM instance loading - this caused the VM screen to begin duplicating below the original VM instace screen, as well on the right side of the module page(link to imgur dump below):

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Additionally, trying to terminate the VM leads to my current scenario where one of the duplicated screens disappear, but I am not sure if there are so many duplicated screens that if just takes its sweet time - either that or it cannot possibly terminate all of them.

This happened about 10 minutes ago, I have not refreshed my page yet, since it’s still going and I want to collect as much info about it and just dump it in a forum post in case someone from the HTB teams sees it. Could anyone try to replicate this on their end? Try to reset a VM and while it’s loading, switch to a different Pwnbox location. Not sure if it can be replicated as well.

cheers,
noob

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It seems like you encountered an interesting issue during your Linux fundamentals practice with firewall configuration. Switching your Pwnbox location in the middle of the VM instance loading caused the VM screen to duplicate below the original instance screen and on the right side of the module page. This unexpected behavior could be due to a conflict or glitch in the virtualization software.

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youre the perfect representation of why I hate bots

cheers, noob
noob

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noob here,

update for whoever read this, the issue was known internally so itll be patched soon enough
will maybe update post if it’s alive by then, will also test to confirm its ok now.

cheers,
noob