On 01 May 13:35, Chris Green wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:00:39PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Investigate if your router can run a DNS server. If it can, you may be sorted. If it can't you might be able to install a new BIOS (or operating system) to a version that does - either a new one from the manufacturer, or something like DDWRT (or similar). DDWRT can run dnsmasq.
Most can, most also allow you to set the name at the router end and bind a specific mac to a specific IP.
Well that's not been my experience with all of my recent routers, none have run DNS, all they do is forward DNS to the upstream server.
Them "not running it" and them "not giving you an easy view of it" are different things, even the supplied plus.net ADSL router I got had an evil DNS server on it. The config for it, however, was best done over telnet with a lot of patience.
And forwarding DNS is still an operation for a DNS server, dear, pure forwarding is, indeed, a very simplistic DNS server, but one all the same.