Re: Debian 11, Chrome and .asp pages

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 04:09:14PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > Have you tried browsing to your default gateway IP Address?

I got it working.  I'm not asking for assistance.  I'm relating a story
that may or may not be relevant to the OP's situation.  (The OP insists
on not sharing any information with us, which makes it impossible
to help him, so there's nothing else to do.)

If I remember correctly, navigating to http://10.0.0.1/ did not work
originally, because the router's builtin web server insisted on rewriting
the URL to its "canonical" form.  So, as soon as the web server redirected
you from http://10.0.0.1/ to http://routerlogin.net/ it would go to the
external web page squatting on that domain.

I believe I found the evidence of how I solved the problem:

unicorn:~$ cat /etc/hosts
[...]
10.0.0.1	routerlogin.net
[...]

Only after I did that, was I able to configure the router, which included
downloading new firmware for it.

Newer versions of the firmware no longer redirect me to the stupid name.
If I go to http://10.0.0.1/ now, it actually stays there.  No URL rewrite.

It's just that initial step of getting the new firmware version into the
router that's perilous.