no clientnames in arp list

[heliosone]

hi!

got my new AC86U router today.
most problems,moving from my old AC56U there,are solvable with research,but one problem persists

no matter what I tried so far,I dont get clientnames (in commandwindow via ssh)
the arp command only shows "?" where before the devices name was listed.(on my old router,the new one never showed ANY clientnames )
I did an arpflush,rebooted my devices,restarted router/wireless/...
no chance,still only "?".

Showing the networkmap within the webinterface... there all devices are listed with their clientname.

firmware is up2date.

any suggestions ??

 

[ColinTaylor]

This sounds like a DNS issue.

IIRC name resolution done by the router (for itself) was changed a few firmware releases ago. In the past it would use the router's DNS server (so you would see your names), but now it goes straight to the internet (so you won't see your names). I believe there's an option in the GUI somewhere to switch back to the old behaviour.

 

[heliosone]

I checked out the options on wan/lan/wireless... no success so far
tried to add the routers ip to /etc/resolv.conf ,but thats a generated file,after restart_wan,only 2 ips are in there.
so I tried to change the nvram settings from wan0_dns & wan_dns ,but the 192.168.1.1 is removed from wan0 after a restart_wan,also it was not added to /etc/resolv.conf

there are so many options (nvram show|grep dns) ... Im kinda lost in this issue

 

[dave14305]

Tools / Other Settings page “Wan: Use local caching DNS server as system resolver (default: No)”. Set to Yes and try again.

 

[heliosone]

im feeling huggy ehm happy BIG THANKS,that did the trick.
Im not sure if I would have found this hidden gem anytime soon