<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone.<div><br></div><div>I have considered just building a spare machine for that, as my machine, although it runs linux, is not on all the time.</div><div><br></div><div>The modem/router I have provides dhcp and you can see the list of connected machines by name, so it seems silly that you can't even ping machines in my house by name.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course I can just keep a host list in all machines, but I am lazy.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess my next modem/router upgrade will better be a modem and a separated router that I can configure or flash as I want :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Marcos</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 at 11:31 Dean Bergin <<a href="mailto:dean.bergin@gmail.com">dean.bergin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Hello Marcos,</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">It is my understanding that good majority of consumer-grade gateway devices (all-in-one ADSL/Wireless) do indeed run a DNS service<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">, however these typically only </div></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">provide <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">a </div>caching<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">-only and normally only </div>forward DNS <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">queries that it does not have cached</div> (typically) configured to an ISP<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> DNS server</div>.</span></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:1.5">I can confirm that the Netgear DGND4000 does <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">that exact </div>DNS service (although I cannot determine whether you can disable it or not) but said DNS service will only run in a </span>caching<span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:1.5"> only (forwarding) configuration<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> as is with most other devices</div>.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">It might be prudent to check the Broadband Whirlpool Forums Hardware database here: <a href="http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/hardware/" target="_blank">http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/hardware/</a></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">If the device has DNS forwarding listed, <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">chances are that is all it will provide with the manufacturers firmware</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">.</div></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Other option, if you require a fully-functional DNS server for your local network, you could consider <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">either </div>running DD-WRT<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> </div>[<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/" target="_blank"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>http://www.dd-wrt.com/</a><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>] or OpenWr<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>t<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> </div>[<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>https://openwrt.org/</a><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>] on the device and install the bind DNS server<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> package</div>, or run your own DNS server on another machine within your network.</font></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Kind Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>Dean Bergin</i>.</div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:04 AM Marcos Raúl Carot <<a href="mailto:marcos.carot@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcos.carot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Good morning,<div><br></div><div>Is there any consumer adsl modem/router/wireless that on top of the dhcp server has a dns server for the local network?</div><div><br></div><div>Google has failed me (or I can't find the right search terms most likely!).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Marcos</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc 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