name resolution

[Tom H]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:02:20 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> There was a fedora-devel@ thread two or three years ago about dnssec
>> where Lennart pointed out that Fritzbox is the most widely-used home
>> routers and that the admin page is reached by going to "fritz.box".
>> ".box" must be registered by now (I'd guess by "box.com" or
>> "dropbox.com" but I don't care enough to check) so Fritzbox'll have to
>> change something in its setup.
>
> If I want to access my router, I'm using the IP 192.168.1.1, which
> seemingly is the valid default for routers of most, if not all
> providers [1]. I could use names as well, yes, names, since my original
> provider was taken over by one provider after the other and the router
> accepts different names.
>
> [1] http://19216811.wiki/

Some use 192.168.0.1 and others 192.168.1.254. I've also been at a
friend's where the shipped default was in the "10.x.y.z" range.

I'm not saying that Fritzbox is right, I am (or rather Lennart was)
saying that this is what it's setting up and communicating to its
customers. So it's a question of communication going forward. Maybe
it'll switch to giving its customers an ip address.