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Hi It would be a really great feature to have the orbi being able to present a LAN dns server and to auto-register dns names etc. DHCP also requires greater functionality like the ability to add ...
This is a standard router function. It was built into the WRT code over a decade ago. I can't remember for sure, but it seemed that it worked for a while after I bought my Orbi rbk50 last year (2018). And then it didn't. I can't pin it down to a firmware update, but that is the most likely scenario.
mvdp's solution above does work (although I personally merged the two lines with a && function), but it doesn't survive a reboot. (Many thanks mvdp, I was not looking forward to implementing a roll-your-own dnsmasq on a spare BeagleBone Black!)
I'll tag this post with "DHCP client name resolution issue" to help others find it.