My ASUS AC-68U requires an external server with a Fully-Qualified Domain Name for any logging to be persisted beyond a reboot of the router. And since the router regularly needs rebooting (and will usually just automatically reboot if any errors are encountered), logging errors without them being persisted after a reboot is pretty useless.
So, a computer with an FQDN I'll need. But I don't have a domain for my computers at home, so I don't really have Fully-Qualified Domain Names, either.
Problem
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What an annoyance. A Windows machine that's configured to be in a workgroup (and not domain-joined), can't have a fully-qualified domain name.
Or... Can it?
I mean, you're already here, so you might as well read on! 😉
Solution
Okay, so it turns out that a non-domain-joined Windows machine can totally have a FQDN! And that's neat, whenever there's a pesky tool or service requiring your machine to have one!
And configuring it is far more straightforward than I'd have expected:
Time needed: 5 minutes.
How to configure a Fully-Qualified Domain Name for your non-domain joined computer?
Fire up your PowerShell
The first step is to open up PowerShell - in case you don't have it already, you can get it by following the instructions on Microsoft's documentation!
Use PowerShell to explicitly tell the computer its domain name
Since you don't have a Domain Controller (well, you don't have a _domain_, so...) you'll need to tell the computer which domain it belongs to.
Fire up the following commandlets to configure the domain to your computer:
Set-ItemProperty "HKLM:SYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParameters" -Name Domain -Value "koskila.local" Set-ItemProperty "HKLM:SYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParameters" -Name "NV Domain" -Value "koskila.local" Set-ItemProperty "HKLM:SYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParameters" -Name "Domain" -Value "koskila.local"In this particular sample, the domain will be "koskila.local". In case you're not fine with that, change it to something else before running the commandlets :)
Restart your computer
As usual, your computer needs to be restarted. It is a Windows machine, after all :)
And you're done! Let me know if it was helpful :)
References
https://argonsys.com/microsoft-cloud/library/giving-a-workgroup-server-an-fqdn/
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