On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 20:33 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Roshan George wrote: > > Hi, everyone, > > > > I have a single computer that serves DNS and which I would also like > > to use to publish an Avahi service (the router administration page) > > on behalf of my router (which can't do so on its own). > > IMO, for router and other network devices that ought to be the purview > of network admins only, the less information you advertise about your > network nodes, the better.
I agree. However, this is at home and it makes many things convenient (my parents no longer have to remember the router IP addresses, they just show up as soon as you hop on the home network). You still need a password, of course. Anyone with malicious intent would surely try the obvious 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.0.1 if they did manage to get on the network so I see it as no additional harm done. As an interesting complication to the issue, the Bonjour for Windows libraries and plugins make everything work as it is. It is only on Linux that the 'Router Administration' service points towards router.local instead of router.lan. This means that on Windows everything works as expected, but on Ubuntu it doesn't. -- Regards, Roshan George <ros...@arjie.com> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
