On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:01:46PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:56:41PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
That "router doesn't do dns locally" is where I came in. Most routers of a few years ago *did* do local DNS but none seem to nowadays.
I'm amazed you're finding routers that don't do DNS, I'm sure that every router I've seen in recent years does do DNS. Failing that just pay a few quid and buy something cheap that will run openwrt and let you run dnsmasq for each network.
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
I bought a TP-Link MR3020 recently for under £20, slapped openwrt on it and took it with me for a 10 day business trip so I had my own access point and DNS (and other nice network things) in my hotel room, if you buy one of these for each network you will be able to setup working DNS.
Failing that a more fully featured TP-Link that will run OpenWrt should not be more than £40-£50 and use that to replace your existing router. If you need something that does ADSL then you should be able to run your ADSL router in bridge mode.
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.