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placid pebble Feb 17, 2022, 1:12 AM

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how would you define local dns

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what is mdns

wild isle Feb 17, 2022, 1:13 AM

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a service running on port 53 is dns

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mdns is multicast

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and you have no power over mdns

placid pebble Feb 17, 2022, 1:14 AM

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I am checking pi hole

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Not sure how to create a local domain with it. WHat would you use as a dns server for home

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Is there a way to check what service runs on port 53

wild isle Feb 17, 2022, 1:17 AM

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if you run pihole it runs on 53

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same as your router

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set everything in your router to .lan or .home (whatever you prefer) and adjust pihole accordingly

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then you can use your .lan or .home as your local domain

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there is not much to it

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just don‘t use .local anywhere in those settings

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.local will always be administered by mdns

placid pebble Feb 17, 2022, 1:22 AM

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I don't see setting on my router for specifying a domain ext

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Thanks anyway

wild isle Feb 17, 2022, 1:24 AM

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that is one trash router then

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you can still use the pihole as dhcp so it does not need the router at all

placid pebble Feb 17, 2022, 1:25 AM

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and disable router dhcp

wild isle Feb 17, 2022, 1:26 AM

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yes

placid pebble Feb 17, 2022, 1:27 AM

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It sounds radical

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to me

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I don't see away to disable dhcp on the router either

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IN any case thanks for the help. I will do some more research

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bye

wild isle Feb 17, 2022, 1:31 AM

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there is a trick to these cheap isp routers too

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set the dhcp range to 1 host only

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leave the rest of the range to hand out by the pi

placid pebble Feb 17, 2022, 2:01 AM

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Interesting, once I do that will nginx see the host

placid pebble Feb 17, 2022, 2:41 PM

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Will I have to reconfigure wifi switches, rokun hue bridge, lutron bridge, etc..?

placid pebble Feb 17, 2022, 3:06 PM

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Also my tplink mesh requires at least 20 ip dns entries in the range it will not set the range to 192.168.68.2 -192.168.68.2 it needs .20 or 20 numbers

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