Your home network

[Jazzy]

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is proposing a change that could streamline the way you access your home’s internal network. That means, instead of using the 192.168.x.x address to configure your router, you’d just need to type .internal

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Thoughts about this change?

 

[tango]

It might take a while to update the firmware in millions of home routers. Any time a change is rushed out there's the chance to introduce new bugs which could have unknown consequences.

I'm not sure that entering an IP address on the rare occasions I need to access a device directly is such an ordeal.