On 23/10/11 12:00, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:

Is it just me or are most routers' DHCP servers close to useless? ... However *none* of them provide name access to clients on the LAN, so I have printers, a VOIP server, etc. on the LAN to which the router gives IP addresses (using DHCP) but the router *doesn't* allow one to reference anything by name. ... Am I just unlucky in the routers I choose or are they really all like this?

I'm running OpenWRT on my old Netgear DG834, this uses dnsmasq to serve DHCP and DNS, which automatically adds/removes local DNS entries when DHCP leases are granted/revoked. This works nicely for the PCs (linux or Windows) and my printer...

Phil.