simulating Internet for Hotspot

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi all,

On and off I take a spare RB300 from work with me home to work on it for a hotspot. As I have no Internet connection at home I can only connect to the SSID. However if I open a webpage I see nothing, not even the alogin.html

Is there a way I could “simulate” the Internet that the alogin is shwon when connecting?

Thanks
Chris

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The reason is that DNS resolution is not working.

In RouterOS 3.x you can fake that using static DNS entries with regex-based names, so e.g. resolve everything to localhost with a dns static entry for “.*” pointing to “127.0.0.1”.

This will bring up your hotspot login screen.
But don’t expect to create a portable version of the internet that way :smiley:…

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Hi Christian,

Can you give me a clue qhich command I have to enter in CLI to make a static DNS?

ip dns static> add name http://www.example.com address=127.0.0.1

But how can I perform that “.*” is routed to 127.0.0.1 afterwards, or is this done automaticlly?

Thanks,
Chris

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Hi Chris,

it’s simple:

/ip dns static add name=.* address=127.0.0.1

That’s all to do…