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flyboytyler

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I was wondering if it might be possible to set my second wireless network for guests to use a different DNS server?

Many thanks for any suggestions.
 
I was wondering if it might be possible to set my second wireless network for guests to use a different DNS server?
Many thanks for any suggestions.

I think this is possible, but I have not tested it. I guess that dnsmasq will have a seperate line for handing out IP addresses for the guest network, and it will look something like this (just an example):

dhcp-range=guest,192.168.0.100,192.168.0.200,255.255.255.0,86400s

Note the tag "guest" or whatever it's called for the guest network. You can now specify additional options for these hosts. For example, to set their DNS server to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 you would add the line:

dhcp-option=guest,6,8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

Hope this works.
 

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