[Novalug] Router acting as DNS server

[Superfro]

Your best bet is to upgrade the firmware with dd-wrt 
(http://dd-wrt.com/site/index) or tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato).
Most wrt54g's are supported, they have different storage sizes so their 
are different packages available depending on your version... but it's 
usually a safe upgrade nad provides a lot of extended functionality not 
included in the original firmware.

Paul

On 3/11/2010 5:43 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> I'm assisting someone with their setup.
> Their router/switch is a LinkSys WRT54G.
>
> The router is functioning properly as a
> DHCP server, and the DHCP clients table
> lists the local hosts including their
> hostnames (no domain names).
>
> I'm trying to get it to work as a DNS
> nameserver as well.  When I point the hosts
> to the router it properly acts as a nameserver
> for external hosts, but it will not resolve
> the hosts listed in the DHCP clients table.
>
> I saw no options in the various menus to
> turn on such a feature.
>
> Nor did I see any option to permanently
> allocate a specific DHCP IP assignment to
> a specific host.
>
> The goal is to do things like ssh<host>.
> Temporarily I've created /etc/hosts entries
> on each machine.  But that will likely go
> out of date when DHCP leases expire.
>
> The systems are not mobile, so maybe I'll
> just recommend static IP assignments.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> jl
>