On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Roshan George wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 20:33 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> > 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 Do you not have DHCP to handle this? > 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. Agree. > 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. How have you setup your home LAN DNS? Is there any other zone besides the default "localhost.localdomain"? -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ 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
