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Recent content by BillP

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    RT-AC86U can only resolve local names

    BTW I just stumbled across a setting in the tools>other settings tab, named "WAN: Use local caching DNS server as System resolver". It was set to default "no", but doesn't seem to change the behaviour with the WAN disabled. Any guess if this might work if the WAN is enabled but unplugged?
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    RT-AC86U can only resolve local names

    Hi Colin: First off, thanks for your efforts on this. The configuration you suggested is pretty much where I had settled, including the custom route but without setting the WAN IP address to something upstream. That last bit didn't seem to affect the behaviour, and I have been running without...
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    RT-AC86U can only resolve local names

    Unfortunately, the switch carries all the wired devices on the subnet, and the Asus is placed at a location that is more appropriate for Wi-Fi signal propagation, far from the patch panel main router and switch.
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    RT-AC86U can only resolve local names

    The main router is configured to expose a separate subnet on each of its interfaces, each with a gateway address in that subnet, but for all intents and purposes, within this subnet you are correct - the gateway address of the router is in the same subnet. This device will be the only dhcp and...
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    RT-AC86U can only resolve local names

    Yes, you are correct. In fact I have no need for a route between this subnets and the others (it's just for home entertainment, streaming, browsing the web, etc.). This device would be connected to a simple switch that is also connected on an interface of the main router. So this switch is...
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    RT-AC86U can only resolve local names

    Hi Colin: Thanks for your response. Good question. I am replacing a device that has failed that was running ddwrt. I was using that device to provide a wireless access point, dhcp, local dns (using dnsmasq) and caching dns entries for one of three subnets behind my main gateway / router /...
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    RT-AC86U can only resolve local names

    I Am running 384.12 of asuswrt-merlin and have set it up as a wireless router although I have no need for the WAN port because I have an upstream router (on a lan port) doing that job. I had to add a static route with metric 1 to access all addresses outside the local network via that upstream...
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