feature request: please add local DNS server to BE3600
feature request: please add local DNS server to BE3600
At present I can ping the hostnames of Windows machines on my LAN eg.
ping win-pc1.local or
ping win-pc2
But I cannot ping linux machines. These will fail to resolve the hostname e.g.
ping ipcam1.local
ping sys2-linux
The TP-Link routers lack an internal DNS server. I know there have been many requests for this internal DNS feature in the past years.
Most competitors like ASUS, etc have an internal DNS (eg. dnsmasq) to resolve local hostnames.
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Have you verified if the non-windows devices that can't be pinged by hostname, have the router IP set as their DNS server?
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@kanchil Yes, I have verified they cannot be pinged by hostname.
As a result, I have to give them static IP addresses, then use these static IP addresses in parameter files. Previously (with ASUS, OpenWrt, etc routers) I could use the hostnames in the parameter files.
example of one device
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We definitely need custom DNS entries on this device; even my old Frontier router had it..
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