Solved How to redirect my local domain to an externally hosted web server

[pianopete]

Hi.

My local domain on my Asus AC68U running Merlin is, for example myname.co.uk. All of my local machines therefore can resolve names such as laptop1.myname.co.uk and get the local IP address.

I have an external web server www.myname.co.uk running on a digital ocean server. My problem is that at home, I can't see www.myname.co.uk unless I use a VPN (I'm guessing that this is because the VPN is using a different DNS server).

What is the best way for me to set up some form of redirect for the whole of the internal network inside the Asus router, so that a web browser is redirected to the Digital Ocean web server rather than seeing the message "Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site." ?

I know that I could fix this for myself by adding something to my laptop /etc/hosts file but I'm looking for a site-wide solution.

At the moment I use the Asus router for DNS.

Pete

 

[ColinTaylor]

Maybe you could create a /jffs/configs/hosts.add custom config file with the following:

11.22.33.44 www.myname.co.uk