Howard Simpson wrote: The way of setting the domain name is via telnet command which is "sys domainname xxxxxx" where xxxx is yourname.

Yeah this command doesn't work on 2930 and probably others too. Seem to be for the WAN side for use in reflection.

Certainly on other routers Ive seen you can set "mydomain.local" up for LAN side DHCP clients.

Really got to find a way to do this.

So really there are two features missing on the Draytek:

#1 Ability to set host name for static mac bound DHCP clients.
#2 Ability to set the domain for the LAN.

Perhaps we should all raise a ticket through support?

you can do both, I've got a beta firmware that lets you give bind IP to MAC addresses more useful names and for the DHCP domain name, you can configure that on the router through telnet by entering

"sys domainname wan1 hostname.com"

Hi

Voodle wrote: you can do both, I've got a beta firmware that lets you give bind IP to MAC addresses more useful names and for the DHCP domain name, you can configure that on the router through telnet by entering

"sys domainname wan1 hostname.com"

I can map an IP to a MAC, that is also present in the current user interface:

Under LAN there is a Map IP to MAC, that insures that the same IP address is always issued - but I have only had to do that because there is no way to do what I want to do.

My old router was a Thomson and, if on the lan I connected several devices, all using DHCP, and I needed to connect to one of the other devices, I could use the host name of the machine. I did not have to set up anything on the router to do this, or for the local hosts. This is quite a basic thing to do.
If I go into the Diagnostics/DHCP table, the host id is shown, so why can't I use this to connect to a different device?