System: Settings: Administration: Unclear documentation, help text

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Issue type
Documentation
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Clearly specified
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Quiet
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start in System: Settings: Administration at the Alternate Hostnames field and locate the displayed help text. Update the wording so it accurately states that an FQDN is required, then verify the revised text in the administration settings UI.

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In the [System: Settings: Administration] you can set "Alternate Hostnames" to bypass DNS Rebinding checks. Help text is:

"Alternate Hostnames for DNS Rebinding and HTTP_REFERER Checks
Here you can specify alternate hostnames by which the router may be queried, to bypass the DNS Rebinding Attack checks. Separate hostnames with spaces."

In reality, you need to set a FQDN at this point, not a hostname.

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