Figured this is probably the best subforum to complain about this.
Now people with Linksys or cheap Cisco routers can run into fun problems... the default domain name in the router's setup is "Cisco"! So when one Windows computer tries to find another computer by name, .Cisco gets appended to the end of the computer name and tries to look up that in DNS first. Prior this was no big deal because it was impossible to hit on a match in the internet's dns system. Now that .cisco is a tld...
Did two service calls to businesses who could no longer access their file server because the workstations were translating the computer name now to the incorrect ip address, and sending username/password login combinations to this incorrect ip address.
Luckily for now it seems all .Cisco url's resolve to 127.0.53.53, so no serious danger... yet... I'm sure that's going to change very quickly as this tld is prime for stealing logins for businesses.
Fun.
Now people with Linksys or cheap Cisco routers can run into fun problems... the default domain name in the router's setup is "Cisco"! So when one Windows computer tries to find another computer by name, .Cisco gets appended to the end of the computer name and tries to look up that in DNS first. Prior this was no big deal because it was impossible to hit on a match in the internet's dns system. Now that .cisco is a tld...
Did two service calls to businesses who could no longer access their file server because the workstations were translating the computer name now to the incorrect ip address, and sending username/password login combinations to this incorrect ip address.
Luckily for now it seems all .Cisco url's resolve to 127.0.53.53, so no serious danger... yet... I'm sure that's going to change very quickly as this tld is prime for stealing logins for businesses.
Fun.
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