Why is my default route pointing to www.asusnetwork.net ?

[ilium007]

So my route table on my client looks like:

macbookair:~ ilium007$ netstat -r
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default www.asusnetwork.ne UGSc 28 58 en2
123.243.221.86/32 172.20.10.1 UGSc 0 0 en0
127 localhost UCS 0 0 lo0
localhost localhost UH 8 679068 lo0
169.254 link#4 UCS 0 0 en2
192.168.10 link#4 UCS 6 0 en2
www.asusnetwork.ne 50:46:5d:6d:9:68 UHLWIir 31 97994 en2 144
192.168.10.100 localhost UHS 1 4 lo0
192.168.10.142 0:f4:b9:f2:5f:24 UHLWIi 0 0 en2 515
192.168.10.200 0:15:17:3d:52:d2 UHLWIi 1 147480 en2 692
192.168.10.201 link#4 UHLWIi 1 572 en2
ipad.harland 8c:fa:ba:6e:21:12 UHLWIi 0 0 en2 1009
192.168.10.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWbI 0 5 en2

Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire
localhost link#1 UHL lo0
fe80::%lo0 localhost UcI lo0
localhost link#1 UHLI lo0
fe80::%en2 link#4 UCI en2

I tried searching for www.asusnetwork.net in these forums but it wont let me. I cant find anywhere to specify the router name. NVRAM shows nothing like that name:

admin@(none):/tmp/home/root# nvram show | grep "www.asusnetwork.net"
size: 45976 bytes (19560 left)
admin@(none):/tmp/home/root#

The /etc/hosts file has the name in question:

admin@(none):/tmp/home/root# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.10.1 www.asusnetwork.net
192.168.10.1 RT-N66U.harland RT-N66U
admin@(none):/tmp/home/root#

Can anyone please assist ?

 

[RMerlin]

This is perfectly normal. This is a special domain name that Asus dedicates to routers. It will always resolve to your router's local IP. That allows them to be able to generate URLs that will always point to your router no matter what IP that router has.

 

[ilium007]

This is perfectly normal. This is a special domain name that Asus dedicates to routers. It will always resolve to your router's local IP. That allows them to be able to generate URLs that will always point to your router no matter what IP that router has.

Ok - I don't really like that idea, I would rather define what routes to what in my network. But glad it has been explained. Cheers.

 

[RMerlin]

Ok - I don't really like that idea, I would rather define what routes to what in my network. But glad it has been explained. Cheers.

Nothing wrong with that idea. It's just a hostname, it has absolutely nothing to do with routing. It's just the name to which your router's IP will resolve internally. Try "netstat -rn" to see what I mean.

root@ubuntu-dev:~/asuswrt.264/release/src/router/rc# netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
default www.asusnetwork 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.10.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0


root@ubuntu-dev:~/asuswrt.264/release/src/router/rc# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.10.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

 

[ilium007]

Well it sort of does have to do with routing because my client routing tables all have a host name for their default route.

 

[RMerlin]

Well it sort of does have to do with routing because my client routing tables all have a host name for their default route.

Routing is based on IPs, not on hostnames. It's just your netstat tool resolving the IP to whichever hostname your DNS returns. The routing is 100% unaffected by it.

 

[ilium007]

Ahhh that explains it - thanks