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 Subject :Another DNS question! How do devices just "know" the node I.. 2016-09-20- 00:07:36 
KW4WP
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Hi all,

I've read some interesting posts about node names and getting your PC or router to resolve them to IPs.  The strange thing is, I had 3 nodes and simply connected a LAN port on one to the WAN jack on a wifi router.  That was it.  When I connected to the router wirelessly, with no special config it just knew where to find the nodes.  But then I discovered that that router had 16mb of flash so I had to go install Openwrt on it and brick it :(

So I'm just wondering, how exactly does a "blind device" on a mesh network know how to resolve node names?  The other two routers I've tried will actually show the "redirecting you to ..." screen but then can't resolve the home screen for the nodes.

Thanks for any help!

Steve

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 Subject :Re:Another DNS question! How do devices just.. 2016-09-20- 14:30:23 
KW4WP
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Well I don't understand it but somehow some routers, when they get their WAN DHCP info, they get the LAN gateway IP of the BBHN node they're connected to. But then others get a wireless node IP ... and those work! I used the same WRT54G today with Openwrt and it would give me nothing but the node's LAN IP. But then I flashed it to stock firmware and now it gets the wireless IP that knows the node names. I don't get it, but it's working now :)
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 Subject :Re:Another DNS question! How do devices just.. 2016-10-02- 16:39:39 
KW4WP
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Yes that's what I found as well ... the router or computer needs DHCP to hand them the wlan IPs instead of the node's lans. Interesting :)
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