The configuration menu of our router allows us to make different adjustments that range from a simple name change of our network to the possibility of improving certain security parameters. Or even create a network of guests in our home or office. Now, the access address may change forever, simplifying it considerably. We tell you all the details.
Historically, when we wanted to access the configuration of our router we had to open our usual browser and Enter the following address: 192.168.1.1. From there, we had access to a large number of parameters that allowed us to adapt our connection to meet our needs. However, ICANN, an organization about which we will give more details below, has proposed a new way to access this menu: “.internal”. We tell you all the details.
The new way to access your router
ICANN is the organization responsible for the technical operation of the Domain Name System, better known as DNS. Among its multiple functions, it is responsible for developing all the policies that define how names should work and internet addresses. In recent days, this company has proposed implementing a top-level domain, named “.internal” whose main characteristic is that it will only be able to function internally.
In this way, it responds to the recommendation established by its Security and Stability Advisory Committee in 2020, warning of the need to reserve a top level domain for exclusive use of private networks.
A few years ago, ICANN established three types of IP addresses for private use. Being the prefix 192.168 the best known, from which we can access the very popular 192.168.1.1. However, this had a problem: users were not always able to remember this number to be able to access the configuration of their router, making it necessary to have to go to the physical device or any other medium in which we had previously written it down.
A situation that even forced many manufacturers to change this numbering through other, much simpler addresses and, subsequently, perform the redirection internally.
Still to be approved
The specialized media The Register reports that ICANN has been evaluating in recent years until a total of 35 names with which to resolve the previously mentioned issue. Furthermore, the complexity increased if one takes into account that they had to evaluate the meaning of all the words that they were selecting in the six languages that are included by the United Nations, having to discard many of the options initially evaluated.
Finally, ICANN was considering two terms to replace the sequence of numbers mentioned previously: «.private» and «.internal. However, and with the aim of avoiding confusion derived from the nomenclature itself, it has decided approve the second of them as an access route to our router.
Once the proposal is made, the board of directors of the organization You must give your approval to it. And, from there, all the processes will begin that will outline the path for both manufacturers and users to, from that moment on, begin to familiarize ourselves with this route to carry out all the relevant modifications to our router.
