Re: [OT] Richmond's DNS disease, was: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/16/14, 2:19 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: To Mark’s point, turning off SSID broadcasting is really only to keep the less-than-adept from jumping on your wireless. It really does nothing these days to secure your wireless. Neither does Mac Address Filtering by the way. Yeah, I'd read that so I did

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2014-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 16/02/14 20:13, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, February 16, 2014, 12:54:21 AM, you wrote: So; I got into my TP-LINK router's settings and changed the DNS to one of the ones I mentioned in an earlier posting: had to physically restart the router (the soft restart just stopped the thing

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2014-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
To Mark’s point, turning off SSID broadcasting is really only to keep the less-than-adept from jumping on your wireless. It really does nothing these days to secure your wireless. Neither does Mac Address Filtering by the way. Tools exist that can mimic your Mac Address, which can be discerned b

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2014-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Pretty sure you can change the primary DNS on ALL devices, but you really are going about it properly by changing the DNS on the router instead. Wait until the monkeys are gone, then do as you please with the router. Bob On Feb 16, 2014, at 24:15 , Richmond mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>

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2014-02-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Sunday, February 16, 2014, 11:24:46 AM, you wrote: > On 2/16/14, 12:13 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> And turn off SSID broadcast - you'll have to type the SSID >> manually in order to connect the first time, but it will keep your >> router under the radar. >> > I had broadcasting turned off

Re: [OT] Richmond's DNS disease, was: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/16/14, 12:13 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: And turn off SSID broadcast - you'll have to type the SSID manually in order to connect the first time, but it will keep your router under the radar. I had broadcasting turned off for years and wanted to keep it that way, but as soon as I got an Androi

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2014-02-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Sunday, February 16, 2014, 12:54:21 AM, you wrote: > So; I got into my TP-LINK router's settings and changed the DNS to one > of the ones I mentioned in an earlier posting: > had to physically restart the router (the soft restart just stopped the > thing working) as well as the cable mo

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2014-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 16/02/14 10:17, Richmond wrote: On 16/02/14 10:15, Richmond wrote: On 15/02/14 22:12, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, February 15, 2014, 11:43:37 AM, you wrote: and "bingo", everything is lovely. Yay! Well "semi-bingo" insofar as individual computers can now bypass the router'

Re: [OT] Richmond's DNS disease, was: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 16/02/14 10:15, Richmond wrote: On 15/02/14 22:12, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, February 15, 2014, 11:43:37 AM, you wrote: and "bingo", everything is lovely. Yay! Well "semi-bingo" insofar as individual computers can now bypass the router's DNS setting (all the Linux boxes I

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2014-02-16 Thread Richmond
On 15/02/14 22:12, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, February 15, 2014, 11:43:37 AM, you wrote: and "bingo", everything is lovely. Yay! Well "semi-bingo" insofar as individual computers can now bypass the router's DNS setting (all the Linux boxes I have connected to my router), but o