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Default "secrets"

Default "secrets"

Posted Jan 7, 2011 11:48 UTC (Fri) by james (subscriber, #1325)
In reply to: Default "secrets" by Fowl
Parent article: Default "secrets"

The domestic routers I've seen ship with DNS and DHCP servers enabled, and the DHCP tells clients to use the router as DNS server. That gives the router a clean way of resolving special domain names itself.

I imagine few users actually bother setting up static IP addresses, and many of those that do still use the router for DNS resolving (you don't know when your ISP is going to change their setup).


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