WiFi router with DNS masq in factory firmware?

[stevech]

Is there a WiFi router with DNS masq in factory firmware?
So I can create a list of up to 10 or so LAN IP addresses (DHCP reservations) and give them LAN-only names?

like
joeblow = 192.168.1.x

or some such.

Not an Internet DNS server - just on my LAN.

 

[Nullity]

dnsmasq's DNS forwarder using a router-stored /etc/hosts file should do that, unless I misunderstand your question.

 

[stevech]

Thanks... but I'd have to SSH into the router and try to figure out how to get the dnsmasq daemon to run each boot-up, and all that rot.

I was hoping there's a modestly priced WiFi router with dnsmasq integrated into the admin GUI (as it probably is with DD-WRT, but I'm wanting to stay with factory firmware).

 

[Nullity]

AsusWRT, and lots of other routers run dnsmasq by default as the DHCP server. Something running AsusWRT-merlin could accomplish your goal easily with a single "user script".

 

[stevech]

Thanks... but

Is there a WiFi router with DNS masq in factory firmware?

 

[Nullity]

Thanks... but

You already know the answer to the question, along with the reasonably easy solution.

No, there is no well-known WiFi routers that support what you want in stock form, but there are easy solutions like AsusWRT-merlin & tomato, or free solutions like pfSense & IPFire if you have an old and/or unused PC.




Why must this feature be factory-included with the GUI?

 

[stevech]

just preference. Speaking as a past user of DD-WRT.

Another option for me is to turn on the DNS server in my NAS, but that's not a simple DNSmasq. It's linux based, so perhaps there's a way to just run DNSmasq.

 

[Nullity]

just preference. Speaking as a past user of DD-WRT.

Another option for me is to turn on the DNS server in my NAS, but that's not a simple DNSmasq. It's linux based, so perhaps there's a way to just run DNSmasq.

dnsmasq has lots of options. I statically map most hostname<->IP DNS entries at the DHCP server, but I also allow the DHCP client to choose an arbitrary hostname which will mapped to the client's IP in the router's DNS.

I think your idea of having the DNS server be separate from the router is perfectly fine (just change what DNS(s) the DHCP shares), but I have never tried it myself except for hosting dnsmasq on the client's localhost, which is kinda stupid, in my opinion.

 

[stevech]

yes. I'm just fiddling with the idea of using symbolic names for the IP addresses of the growing number of WiFi things here - phones, tablets, RPi's, other IoT's. I have been using DHCP reservations in the router's DHCP server. But many things don't send a name with the DHCP request, so I have to have a crib sheet of MAC addresses. Would be nice if router let me enter a device name.

Kind of scary that our new washing machine can link via Bluetooth to the manufacturer's diagnostics system.