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Orbi VPN with custom dhcp/dns
I have an Orbi Wifi 6 mesh. All working well. I have another server on my network acting as DHCP via dnsmasq served from 192.168.1.68. It gives out domain names reliably based on MAC address...
WAN is set to use ISP DNS.
LAN is set to use 192.168.1.98
Thanks. My hypothesis is that the Orbi is intercepting DNS queries and referring them to the ISP DNS servers, which have no idea who 192.168.1.68 is. Using DHCP to tell all devices on the network to use 192.168.1.68 to resolve DNS queries does not tell the Orbi router to do so. (because the Orbi does not get its IP from 192.168.1.68. It has claimed that IP for itself.)
One experiment might be to set the Orbi to resolve DNS at 192.168.1.68 and have that server resolve DNS at some public source, such as 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8
Question: was the ".local" left off that nslookup query on purpose?
Local not left off on purpose.
I've tried with .local
I like your idea. Was hoping not to route public DNS through my DNS server but will give it a go. Thanks for the suggestion.
I really wish the Orbi could be set up to resolve local DNS names itself without the need for an external server.
netroworx2 wrote:
I really wish the Orbi could be set up to resolve local DNS names itself without the need for an external server.
That has been mentioned before. I did an experiment using Pi-hole, which does allow defining local DNS names. Pointed the Orbi to the Pi-hole and it did resolve local URLs. (not running that way right now. I change settings quite a bit.)
Oh, darn. I did not attempt to resolve local URLs from a VPN connection. It will take some time to set up that experiment. (Need to have the network to myself for a bit.)