On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:37:44PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
Well lets see:-
Daytek Vigor 2820n - no DNS TP-Link TL-WR743ND - no DNS TP-Link TL-WA7210N - no DNS TP-Link TL-WA5210N - no DNS Solwise 434T 3G router - no DNS (not absolutely sure on this one) Tenda W311R+ - no DNS
OK, maybe I should have been more clear, I am surprised that you are finding routers that do not do local DNS if you need this feature.
By 'no DNS' I mean that the router doesn't provide the names registered by DHCP clients. They mostly 'do DNS' in the sense that they will forward DNS requests upstream and will cache DNS but that's not a lot of use for local names.
Yes, I know, you already explained that. Why don't you just acquire some hardware or routers with the features that you require? Or as has been suggested use a hosts file.
In fact your assertion that you can't use a hosts file because you have the same router in multiple locations is very likely false unless you have purchased some really rubbish routers. If you assign the local IP range at each location to a different network, so 192.168.100.X/24 in one place and then 192.168.101.X/24 in another place and so on and then give everything a static lease via the DHCP server in each location. Then you can have a hosts file with all the entries in and it won't matter as they'll all be on different subnets.
Adam