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aussteyr
Star
Jan 02, 2018
Status:
New Idea

orbi add dns server

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 ...
DNS
Orbi WiFi System
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gb777
Apprentice
Jun 29, 2020

Thanks for this post. I'm looking at a AX4200/RBR750 bought in 2020 that still lacks this feature, oddly enough.

 

I can run

 

 

awk '/ip/ { printf "%s ", $2 } /hostname/ { print $2 }' /tmp/dhcp_info_for_fing/*

to get a rough list of devices.

But if I clean this list up and place it in say /tmp/addh.txt and then run

dnsmasq -h -n -c 0 -N -H /tmp/addh.txt -i 'br*' -r /tmp/resolv.conf -u root

it doesn't work.

(I've added '-H /tmp/addh.txt' here, the other flags are as when the router starts dnsmasq)

 

This is

# dnsmasq -v
Dnsmasq version 2.78  Copyright (c) 2000-2017 Simon Kelley
Compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN no-DHCP no-scripts no-TFTP no-conntrack no-ipset auth no-DNSSEC loop-detect inotify

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Dnsmasq is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or 3.