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

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 15:25:41 EST 2014


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 working) as well as the cable modem: bingo,
>> hopefully "bigger bingo" than previously.
> Probably also worth flushing your dns cache
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-debian-ubuntu-flush-clear-dns-cache/
>
> I usually set one of Google's dns servers as one of my alternates, not
> because I'm particularly enamored of Google, but because their servers
> support DNSSEC. It's not too widely supported yet, but getting more so
> to avoid dns poisoning and man-in-the-middle exploits.
>
> 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4
>
> The next time you configure your router's settings, make sure that the
> "remote configuration" or whatever it's called on your router is
> turned off. You *did* change the default password, right? And if your
> wireless access is enabled, make sure you're using WPA encryption, not
> WEP. 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.
>

That is really very helpful advice: Thanks a bunch.

Richmond.




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