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Rob Beard wrote: > Simon Williams wrote: > > >> I want the router to do the DNS. I don't want a server running here (I >> have to sleep in this room). >> >> > > Well looks as though the Netgear router won't do DNS. Your options > appear to be either... > > a) Live with the problem. > > b) Get a Linksys WRT54GS or similar and run OpenWRT on it (they're quiet > as mice). > > c) Get maybe one of those other Linksys devices, the NSLU2? and run > Debian on it (again, another quiet option I would expect). > > or d) Get a Viglen MPC-L and run something on that. > > Looking at the prices, I think the Linksys WRT54GS option might be the > cheapest if you can get the right model (I was lucky enough to get a > cheap one off a mate). > > Rob Doesn't have to be a WRTable router just to do internal DNS. My router - shockingly a Speedtouch - does internal DNS and forwards any un-internally-resolvably DNS requests to my ISP's DNS servers. Didn't have to update any firmwares or anything. Indeed, the more I look at some of the routers out there that businesses use, the more I appreciate just how much my little Speedtouch router does. Came across a Draytek the other day (I forget which specific model - a Vigor something) that would do port forwarding, but wouldn't let you change the port numbers en-route. It's so handy being able to say "incoming port 443 gets redirected to machine X on port 22". Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html