This looks VERY interesting:
http://nookdevs.com/index.php?title=...259&oldid=prev
From NookDevs.com a BN Nook hacking site/wiki:
Quote:
So we found a way to push our own content to nook while retaining Barnes and Noble's content.
NOTE: THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT nook HAS BEEN ROOTED YET
Steps to use the DNS hack:
Change your router DNS IP's to 69.164.195.211. Both primary and secondary need to be changed to this
Restart your nook by pressing and holding the power button until it turns off
Start it up
Make sure your nook is on Wifi
Go to the Daily
Check out the new content!
Note: this only poisons the barnesandnoble.com record. Any other requests get passed through to OpenDNS servers.
Keep watching for new content every day!
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I added the
DNS to clarify a typo in the original description. You don't want to change the Router's actual IP address, just the servers it uses for DNS lookups (AKA the translation from
www.MobileRead.com to it's actual numerical IP address 67.205.70.12, which is far harder for us to remember than MobileRead.com).
I think NookDev.com's hack works by fooling the Nook into using THEIR DNS server (69.164.195.211) which "poisons" or substitutes content requested from BN's servers for updates seen in the "Daily" section for custom data that they've created. It sounds like in addition to the normal "Daily" data from BN, they're adding some custom content of their own. (I have not personally tried this out yet).
Caveats:
They promise to send all other internet/IP requests besides to BN's Nook servers to OpenDNS servers so all your other browsing on computers via your router is normal. However, do this at your own risk as they are basically injecting their DNS server as an intermediary and can do malicious things (if they were so inclined).
If you want to try this out, I would recommend only doing this temporarily to check out their custom Daily content on your Nook ONLY. You NEED TO switch your Router DNS server settings back to what they were (I like OpenDNS personally) before doing any other browsing/internet/email/banking/etc through that router.
Also, one potentially could use this method to push bad stuff/malware to your Nook. I really doubt the folks at NookDevs.com are evil nor have they figured out how to do that yet (ie. I'm pretty sure Firmware/Software updates should be encrypted/signed by BN before being accepted by your Nook and run, but that is still being investigated) at this early stage (they have not figured out how to "root" or get full access to the Nook OS) but the risk is potentially there.
I'll have a look around to see if they've posted their custom "Daily" server code. I'm thinking that it should be fairly simple to run your own "Daily" server on your own network if they've figured Nook's protocol for talking with BN's Daily server.
Think: Sending your own RSS feeds, emails, documents, etc. to your Nook in additional to the content BN provides. Perhaps even filtering BN's content if you're not interested in some of what they're sending.
If there is a way to channel files/ePubs/pictures to specific directories through this method, it'd be way cool as you could also then side load content onto your Nook wirelessly w/o hooking up to the USB cable...
This could be pretty cool.
Dave