Custom DNS aliases?

[guss77]

I've just installed Merlin on a new RT-AX58U, as a replacement to an older router that was running Fresh Tomato, and I'm wondering if there is a way to set up custom DNS aliases like I could do in Fresh Tomato by setting custom dnsmasq configuration rules through the UI. I didn't find anything obvious in the Merlin UI.

The reason I'm interested in this is that I want a split-horizon DNS: I expose some services from my DMZ home server to the internet HTTP named virtual hosting and static IP, and I want to access the same services on the local lan, directly (i.e. not go through the router) with the same host name (also, its named virtual hosting - I kind of need to have multiple names resolvable to the same IP address).

Is this possible with the DNS on the Merlin firmware?

 

[guss77]

After searching a bit more in the forum, I found this thread: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/can-i-use-custom-dns-entries.58050/

I'm assuming I need to create a `/jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add` file.

 

[guss77]

I've created a file `/jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add`, with content like this:

local=/local.mydomain.com/
address=/service/service.local.mydomain.com/service.mydomain.com/192.168.50.70
address=...
...

And that looks to be working fine