Sign up ×  it is there any way to run a domain on my router
instead of running dyndns or other alternatives (Dynamic DNS)
etc. on tomato or dd-wrt firmware ?  share|improve this question
1 Answer 1  up vote 0 down vote accepted  DNSMasq & /etc/hosts
Take a look at these instructions from the dd-wrt website. The
article is titled: DNSMasq Local Network. This method makes use
of the routers /etc/hosts file to act as the master list of
name/IP mappings. Depending on your needs this might be a good
fit.   There is also this method discussed in this article
titled: How To Access Your Machines Using DNS Names with DD-WRT.
With this method you're using the dd-wrt router's DHCP service
to do 2 things for you.  One, it will force all the systems that
lease IP's from it, to get your LAN's domain name. Second, you
can use the router's DHCP server to act as your DNS server as
well by adding all the hosts in your LAN to the DHCP table.
You're using DHCP, but you're using it to statically assign IP's
to the same hosts w