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Re: [LUG] Netgear routers - local DNS

 

Simon Williams wrote:
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> Google suggests that Netgears routers aren't actually capable of doing
> this!?! Can anyone confirm/deny this?
> 
> Thanks.
> Simon

Do you mean resolving DNS for machines inside your network?

Looking at my Netgear Router (DG834G), it looks like you're right, it 
just forwards on the DNS requests.

What I have done on my internal network is setup a server with dnsmasq 
and put the entries for my internal machines (about 10 of them) into the 
/etc/hosts files on the server,  dnsmasq then checks the /etc/hosts file 
first and if it doesn't find what it's looking for internally it then 
sends a request out to t'internet.  Does the job for me anyway, before 
this I did have bind running on the network but it seemed a bit OTT for 
my simple network.

Have you considered getting a Linksys WRT54G router and running 
something like OpenWRT on it?

Rob



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