name resolution

[Tom H]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:32:49 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Its very simple, we could use some name given by or ISP or simply use
> an IP that is valid for most routers, even if we should migrate to
> another ISP providing us another router and name, but the same IP.

systemd-resolved has another solution. With v235, "_gateway" is
resolved to the default gateway. It used to be "gateway" but that's
never worked for me so maybe it's compiled out.