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I'm using Shibby's mod K26RT-N v112 AIO:

I have assigned static ip addresses to some clients on my LAN, which run some services (i.e. DLNA, ftp, etc) that I regularly use. I can access them just fine by typing the ip address, though name resolution fails when I try to communicate using the static dhcp hostname (i.e. ftp://ftpserver). Each time I do this, I get forwarded to the google search, or the OpenDNS search page.

Under Advanced —> DHCP, I have "Use Internal DNS" and "Intercept DNS port (UDP 53)" checked off, so I thought my DNS requests would go to dnsmasq first, before going on to my DNS server, though it appears this isn't happening. "Prevent DNS-rebind attacks" is the only other option I have checked.

Why isn't it working? What should I try?

After some testing, it looks like the only computers where this isn't working are windows computers. My router and single linux client can 'ping hostname' to all of the other machines on the LAN. I don't know what I should be looking at on the windows computers. I find it strange, because I can resolve all of the addresses on the Windows computers using "nslookup hostname" in the command prompt, but when I try to 'ping hostname' or 'Http : //hostname', it fails.

Problem solved. Under Basic —> Identification, I had to provide my router with a hostname (I put down the same name as 'router name'), and a domain name. I don't know why this matters for windows… It works now, so I don't really care.