@BradLanier Both of your largest competitors, Netgear and Linksys, offer this capability. Everything worked fine with my Netgear router. PLEASE look deeper into this.

@David-TP Yes, I do have custom DNS server setup. Works fine in Windows. Problem in Linux seems to be that DHCP on the router does not allow setting the domain name of the network. Therefore, things...

Using DHCP, my Windows clients work fine resolving names on my local DNS server. My Linux clients are having trouble. Looks like the problem is DHCP on the router is NOT providing local domain name...