General discussion • Re: RPi 5 as a desktop daily driver?

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

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?

EDIT: Or do you switch the router's DNS server off and the device will find the local DNS server. Does the DNS server tell it which gateway to use?

Statistics: Posted by pidd — Wed May 22, 2024 7:53 pm

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