Not that I'm aware of. IMHO the DHCP and DNS configuration capability of most routers is pretty lame.I'm curious if its possible to have a local dns server that doesn't have the rest of traffic going through it but still be picked up automatically when you plug a random Ethernet device onto the lan? Routers don't normally have a setting to enable the separate DNS server do they?It's easy enough to set up a DNS server on a Pi using pihole, standalone dnsmasq, or bind9/isc-dhcp-server (or heck, even kea). Or, use ndm and avoid editing config files altogether. Easy to backup, restore, move to another Pi, etc etc. And the router can then do what routers should be doing: route
By using a separate DNS/DHCP with finer-grained control, you can have a DHCP server that gives different types of clients (either individually or in some kind of grouping) different DNS servers if you want, which I think is what you're asking?
It's also very easy to configure time servers and PXE boot with your own DHCP server (good luck getting most routers to cough that info out!).
Statistics: Posted by bls — Wed May 22, 2024 8:05 pm