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    mDNs / Bonjour / Multicast

    My tests are by no means exhaustive, but ping device.local from a Mac or a Debian box (systemd) shows (via Wireshark) an mDNS query directly to 224.0.0.251 (a broadcast address) and a mDNS response to 224.0.0.251 directly from the device being pinged. I assume both the Mac and the Debian box are...
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    AiMesh: clients keep connecting to the wrong AP

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206207 This Apple document (may not apply to non-Apple devices) may give you some idea how clients choose what to connect to and when to disconnect.
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    386.10 on AC86U losing all 2.4Ghz devices (seemed to be fixed in 386.9.0)

    Am on a different router (AX86U) & different verson (388.1), but noticed the only 2.4GHz device (a Brother printer) was causing continual "Disassociated due to inactivity" errors in the syslog. I was able to eliminate the errors by setting Wireless > General > Protected Management Frames to...
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    WAN DNS Setting DNS order Server1 / Server2

    Apparently discussed a few times on the Dnsmasq-discuss listserv (this is an old one): https://www.mail-archive.com/dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk/msg12800.html Triggers to query all servers are: From src/config.h #define FORWARD_TEST 50 /* try all servers every 50 queries */ #define...
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    WAN DNS Setting DNS order Server1 / Server2

    I don't see either of these parameters (from the Linux man page https://linux.die.net/man/8/dnsmasq ) in my /tmp/etc/dnsmasq.conf, so I assume it is using the defaults described in each which seem to contradict each other... (?): --strict-order By default, dnsmasq will send queries to any of...
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    Samba Resharing Function

    This may be a long shot: Some MacOS versions unofficially supported SMB1 by using cifs://User@NAS_IP/Shared_Dir if from Finder you enter that directly in Go > Connect to Server. Using smb:// etc defaults to SMB2+. Otherwise there may be ways to get your NAS to support SMB2+. What NAS is it and...
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    Solved SMB2 share does not work (SMB1 does)

    When in doubt, run Wireshark on one of the machines to see what is the "conversation".
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    Peculiar LAN name resolution issue

    As I understand it, nslookup has its own code for resolving IP addr/hostname and does not use the underlying operating system's (Linux, Windows, MacOS) code.
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    Peculiar LAN name resolution issue

    From https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/nslookup?source=recommendations#remarks An Error message of "Nonexistent domain" means "The computer or DNS domain name doesn't exist".
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    How do you enable in the Asuswrt firmware so that local devices can run host/nslookup on a local IP and get its hostname that the router has recorded?

    Question answered - I see "domain-needed" in /etc/dnsmasq.conf
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    How do you enable in the Asuswrt firmware so that local devices can run host/nslookup on a local IP and get its hostname that the router has recorded?

    ...but would a null domain be considered as a local domain?
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    How do you enable in the Asuswrt firmware so that local devices can run host/nslookup on a local IP and get its hostname that the router has recorded?

    An interesting read is the section on the rules for lookup requests in systemd-resolved.service (which many Linux distros have adopted): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-resolved.html#Protocols%20and%20Routing
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    How do you enable in the Asuswrt firmware so that local devices can run host/nslookup on a local IP and get its hostname that the router has recorded?

    I would assume that if the router's DHCP/DNS server (dnsmasq?) cannot find that "mypc." it would send it to an upstream DNS server (etc...) which would also not find it...
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    How do you enable in the Asuswrt firmware so that local devices can run host/nslookup on a local IP and get its hostname that the router has recorded?

    As it mentions in the Wikipedia page "Any DNS query for a name ending with the label local must be sent to the mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast address 224.0.0.251...", which means that the device with that IP address is required to respond, NOT your router. That is how the zero config/mDNS works...
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    How do you enable in the Asuswrt firmware so that local devices can run host/nslookup on a local IP and get its hostname that the router has recorded?

    .local is a no-no - it is reserved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local Try .lan or .home. Actually "lan" or "home" - don't include any "." in the Domain Name box :)
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    How do you enable in the Asuswrt firmware so that local devices can run host/nslookup on a local IP and get its hostname that the router has recorded?

    Have you tried setting a Domain Name on your LAN? It appears you have it blank or have it set to "in-addr.arpa"
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    IOS samba cannot write

    I totally agree! I do not blame the developer - my point is that if someone wants a Samba file server with all the bells & whistles, they need to get a device that is suitable for that.
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    IOS samba cannot write

    Samba daemon running on 386.5_2 is 3.6.25 released Feb 2015! Suggest you get something else (RPi4 if you can get one) to run a recent (currently 4.16.0) version of Samba to take advantage of the many improvements since then.
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    Mapping to NAS - Mac

    Sorry...even later response to your original post. I am a Mac & Linux user, so have to disagree with @L&LD - correct way to link to your NAS is in your Finder > Go > Connect to Server, then use the following format: smb://username@NAS/foldername You can map to the highest level folder and...
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    [Release] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.10 is now available

    I have Gbit fiber at home, so upload is fast from my server to my remote devices. Settings may vary depending on your upload speed, but the tun-mtu 9000 is the mtu of the tun adapter, not the underlying network(s), essentially allowing OpenVPN to encrypt/descrypt larger packets...
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