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R7800 DNS entry
I recently installed an r7800 to be the primary router in my house from Fios. I used the Verizon one previously. I have an amazon fire stick and had to enter a dns entry to stream service that I use...
There is a way to do it.. Granted i am running Voxels firmware but its based on netgears .. hope NGs is similiar..
0.) Telnet into the router (ssh if voxels)
To test temporarily;
1.) vi /tmp/dnsmasq.conf
add the entry(s) you want to the bottom of the file with lines like;
address=/bartsimpson.domain1.com/192.168.0.2
2.) restart dnsmasq
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq stop
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq start
3.) On your client/device (not the router) do a dns lookup or try to resolve bartsimpson.domain1.com
To make the change permanent add the line to /etc/dnsmasq-resolv.conf and restart
the 7800.
So no I could not find a place in the GUI to add static entries but 7800 is running an OS
capable of doing it..
There is a service that I stream from that does not have a public DNS name. To use this service on the fire stick, I have to use the app which specifies a DNS name.
So I have to be able to resolve that DNS name to a specific IP address for the app to work.
Thanks
The router does have an /etc/hosts file. If you turn on telnet you can log into the router as root and add the entry you want. As to whether that helps a client device resolve the name I do not think it will...didnt work for me.. Your saying the old router let you add hosts file entries (via the UI) that the clients were able to then resolve ?
I did get around it by adding an entry on the Firestick through a virtual IP app.
But to answer your question, Yes. The router that came with my Fios service allows me to put in entries so I can define what IP's resolve to what DNS names.
Since it's performing DHCP functions - essentially performing DNS services for my internal network, it would seem a fairly easy modification.
Oh well. I got around it, but to think that a crappy 7 year old Fios router has this capability and that Netgear doesn't is surprising to me. It wasn't a feature that I thought I had to look for in a router before I bought it.