name resolution

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 26 November 2017 14:19:54 Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:41:23 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >On Sunday 26 November 2017 11:00:34 Ralf Mardorf 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/
> >
> >Not looking at the above, I will state that IMO, its important from a
> >security standpoint, to move your home networks off the default
> >192.168.0.1 or 1.1, just to make the black hats work a little harder
> >to find you if they should manage to get thru the routers internet
> >faceing protections.
>
> Protection against black heads idiots happens on another level of
> security. It's a shame for my generation (I'm 51 years old and a
> German) and your American government, too, that there actually is a
> black head community participating with something completely wrong.
> Regarding those idiots considering to migrate to different IPs is
> idiotic. I don't even have a clue what dinos as you and I could do
> using a soldering station in addition to software alternatives, but
> IMO we lost that war. Even onion networks seem to be a no solution,
> read(ing) the TOR FAQs.

We haven't (you and I at least) totally lost that war yet, but it is 
getting harder to stay ahead of those barnacles on the devils rectum.

Take care Ralf.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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