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Internal site by name, for new devices (not by IP) Is it possible?
Tell me please. I want to make a local website in a hotel. Guests connecting to the guest Wi-Fi network can type the NAME of the site and get to the site. Without complex sets like HTTPS:// Name . It is clear that there will be elderly people and children. Therefore, the easiest access is needed. In general, ideally, the page itself opens when connected. There will be hotel news, weather, menus and links to videos, music, audio. As I understand it, without a set of IP this is not feasible.
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Seems to have figured it out. In kinetics, I registered the NAME of the site - IP, then in the guest network in the settings I was the first to specify the IP of the router in the DNS 192.168.1.1 All all new smartphones connected to the guest network can access the site by name (and without https: //) This router has setting up a captive portal, BUT we can specify from the drop-down list, but we cannot set it up on our local site, and it seems there is no way to do it.
And the site is on an open server and WordPress, the usual bunch. Physically located on an old computer 192.168.1.3 I bought an SSD, installed Windows, created catalogs VIDEO, DOCUMENTS, CARTOONS. Everything goes through the site. Guests are both elderly and children. You can’t prescribe the settings for everyone, you can’t say go to the address HTTPS://xyz.ru But just said type xyz.ru and they are all on the site
You need to set up DNS on your WiFi router. Google setting dns for guest wifi network
feasible because you only need to link the name and domain.
To do this, you can do several options
1. buy a domain on the Global DNS server and match your DNS record and ip, ip there (but this is a paid option with buying a domain)
2. you raise your dns server and match them already at home, see the previous comment .
3. raise a dns server on one of the computers on the network and specify it as the primary dns.
but I think 2 options will suffice for you.
Captive portals work according to the following scheme:
1) the user connects to a Wi-Fi network;
2) enters some arbitrary HTTP address (on mobile devices, the device itself can access a specific address to check for the presence of a portal);
3) from the network, instead of the requested page, a redirect comes to the captive portal page (at the same time, all other ports are closed, the Internet is unavailable);
4) the user on the page can get acquainted with information about the network, somehow confirm his identity (for example, by entering a code from SMS to his phone number) and proceed to use the network;
5) after confirming the transition, the network disables the redirection and blocking of other ports and the Internet becomes available.
The scheme is not very reliable (users are identified by poppy addresses that can be changed and are transmitted in the clear), but widespread. In your case, the redirect will go to the local site. You can open Internet access there, or you can leave only local access in the guest network. Users do not need to enter the address in advance, redirection is automatic.
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