On 31.8.2015, at 14.12, Tore Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jumping in here with the perpective of a «dumb user» who spent the > weekend playing with the Homenet implementation in OpenWrt 15.05... > > (Note that I don't know whether my comments pertain to the Homenet > standards themselves or are specific to the OpenWrt implementation.)
Implementation. > * Markus Stenberg <[email protected]> > >> On 31.8.2015, at 13.16, Henning Rogge <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Does homenet even need a “central" DNS server? >> >> No. It is per link, not per home. > > After converting my main router to Homenet mode (leaving the other one > as a dumb layer-2 bridge) I was initially happy to see that URIs such as > http://scanner worked and that I could do "ssh myserver" and so on. > This was of course because the DNS search path had been set up as > "lan.mainrouter.home", and "server.lan.mainrouter.home" resolved fine. > If I connected via Wifi, I could no longer use unqualified names to > reach the server living on the wired LAN segment, but the fully > qualified one would still work. > > However as soon as I converted my downstairs router to Homenet mode as > well and connected my laptop to the downstairs wireless network, I > could no longer use names to access the server (short or fully > qualified). It appears the DNS server in each router only knows about > its immediate neighbours. That was a rather big bummer, to be honest. That is not the case. Instead, it sounds like potentially issue with IPv4 + dnsmasq (e.g. option that prevents RFC1918 replies from being forwarded), I hope you are not using legacy IP :) (We intentionally touch as few defaults as possible, and that protection is on by default IIRC) Another caveat is that DHCP-derived names within dnsmasq are not currently distributed outside (local) dnsmasq but instead just provided locally, possibly with some weird domain that other routers do not know about. (dnsmasq extensibility leaves something to be desired.) Cheers, -Markus _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
