Hi,

What is the best way to do both DNS and DHCP to the LAN?

I don't think the router can pull the host names from the DHCP server requests in the same way as dnsmasq on linux does but that would be ideal.

I can set local host names using Applications -> LAN DNS on my 2860n but I have many hosts and can't find the command to set this via CLI, is that possible?

I feel I'm making this more complicated than it needs to be!

Any advice is welcome. Thanks.

Code:

> ip lanDNS ? % Usage: % ip lanDNSRes [- | ... ] % -a , set IP Address Mapping % -d

, delete index's property % -e <0/1> , 0:enable 1:disable % -h , show usage % -i % -l , list profile and domain-IP message % -n , set domain name % -p , set profile name % -r , reset index's setting % -s <0/1> , 0:reply all 1:reply only same sunnet packet % -z , update LAN DNS config to DNS Cache % Example: % ip lanDNSRes -i 1 -e 1 % ip lanDNSRes -i 1 -p FTP % ip lanDNSRes -i 1 -n ftp.drayTek.com % ip lanDNSRes -i 1 -a 172.16.1.1 -s 1 % ip lanDNSRes -i 1 -d 1 % ip lanDNSRes -i 1 -r % ip lanDNSRes -i 1 -l % ip lanDNSRes -l % ip lanDNSRes -z

Perfect, I missed that. Thanks.

I'm assuming this is so local hostnames will resolve internally?

Using ip lanDNSRes -z for me seems to do absolutely nothing - and I'd like to be able to have a local DNS res that's looked after by DHCP, whilst having to update manually wouldn't be great, important hosts are reserved; but my output is:

Code:

VXW> ip lanDNSRes -l ip lanDNSRes -l VXW> ip lanDNSRes -z ip lanDNSRes -z VXW> ip lanDNSRes -l ip lanDNSRes -l VXW>

Or am I misinterpreting the OP as wanting to do what I want!?