Set hostname with . and : on static ip list

[TheIronShadow]

Today I have received my ASUS RT-AX86U. It is an amazing router and have flashed ASUSWrt-Merlin. Unfortunately when I want to assign a hostname with a . or : it does not seem to like that. I want to set it at LAN -> DHCP Server -> Manually Assigned IP around the DHCP list (Max Limit : 128).

For example the hostname I want to have is mydomain.com pointed to a internal IP. I have done that with DD-WRT which worked flawelessly. Is it possible somehow on ASUSWrt-Merlin or do I need to modify the firmware to allow a . or :

 

[dave14305]

A hostname is different than a URL with a port specification. DHCP and DNS only care about the hostname part. You seem to be trying to combine a DHCP reservation with a port forward rule.

 

[ColinTaylor]

hostnames cannot contain dots or colons. "mydomain.com" is not a hostname it's a domain name. Domain names cannot contain colons either.

If you want mydomain.com to resolve to an internal IP address you can create a hosts.add custom config file for it.

Custom config files

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

github.com

 

[TheIronShadow]

A hostname is different than a URL with a port specification. DHCP and DNS only care about the hostname part. You seem to be trying to combine a DHCP reservation with a port forward rule.

I may have written it wrong. My bad.
What I want it a url in the hostnames is a . and not specifically the :

for example I host a webserver with port 8080. When I have put in the static ip for it with the internal hostname mydomain.com I can manually do mydomain.com:8080

when I had dd-wrt I had done this and my browsers remembered.
So my question is if it is possible to only have a . In the hostname part of asuswrt-merlin?

 

[ColinTaylor]

So my question is if it is possible to only have a . In the hostname part of asuswrt-merlin?

See post #3 for the answer.

 

[TheIronShadow]

See post #3 for the answer.

Post 3 is my post and a question. I don't get it.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Post #3:

hostnames cannot contain dots or colons. "mydomain.com" is not a hostname it's a domain name. Domain names cannot contain colons either.

If you want mydomain.com to resolve to an internal IP address you can create a hosts.add custom config file for it.

Custom config files

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

github.com

 

[Poul Bak]

You can write a domain name, that applies to all your lan devices. Choose the 'Lan-Ip' tab and set the router's domain name. You can still access devices using only their computer name, but you can also use 'computer.domain'.

 

[TheIronShadow]

Thank you all for your comments. I have solved my issue by adding the domain and using the computer/hostname I set with the static IP. I couldn't make the hosts.add file or the dnsmasq file work.