dns name?

RouterOS General
1

how to change dns name of microtik? I change identity, but dns name is some number?
thx

2

it’s not a DNS name. DNS names ar not assigned by devices themselves, but by DNS Servers.

3

my primary dns is mikrotik
so why does all my mikrotiks have the same format of name…I didnt give them that…example 1090192934.492

4

windows genrates this number, in latest versions of windows this is not shown

5

Windows generates this number? Are we talking about the same thing? When I do a trace route from a host on my LAN to an Internet host, the first hop is shown as the number that dorijan describes. On another router I have this is described as the system name and can be changed with simple command. Is there no facility to do this in RouterOS?

Thanks,
Guy

6

yes and in latest version of windows (XP) this is not anymore visible. if you insist that this is somehow connected with DNS, please give me a RFC where it is described.

7

Normis,

We must be talking about different things. I am talking about:

C:>tracert 212.23.8.1
Tracing route to ns0.zen.co.uk [212.23.8.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms pad001.rtr1 [192.168.50.1]
2 40 ms 20 ms 20 ms gadamer-dsl.zen.net.uk [62.3.83.3]
3 21 ms 19 ms 20 ms erazmus-ge-0-0-1-1.wh.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.193]
4 20 ms 21 ms 21 ms copernicus-ve-11.gc.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.70]
5 21 ms 21 ms 20 ms machiavelli.zen.net.uk [62.3.81.38]
6 20 ms 23 ms 22 ms ns0.zen.co.uk [212.23.8.1]
Trace complete.

Or, put another way:

C:>nslookup 192.168.50.1
Server: anscombe.zen.co.uk
Address: 212.23.6.35

Name: pad001.rtr1
Address: 192.168.50.1

“pad001.rtr1” is my router (non-Mikrotik) and I gave it it’s name. Obviously, Windows did not generate “gadamer-dsl.zen.net.uk” either. Is there a way to set mikrotik so that it will return “pad001.rtr1” in a tracert or nslookup?

Thanks,
Guy

8

Is that a real printout ot this is what you want to get?

As Normis told, DNS names are not assigned by devices themselves, only by DNS servers. If you are using your router with RouterOS as a DNS server, please put what you want into “/ip dns static”. If you have different (eg., provider’s) DNS server, please contact person who is in charge of registering DNS names to register the name you would like to have for that IP address (and pad001.rtr1 is not a valid DNS name either)

9

Yes, the above is a real print out without a RouterOS router in the network. I understand what you are saying about DNS names only being supplied by DNS servers. As you say pad001.rtr1 is not a valid DNS name, it can only be resolved on my private network.

If I just swapped the existing router for routerOS, I would get something like this:

C:>nslookup 192.168.50.1
Server: anscombe.zen.co.uk
Address: 212.23.6.35

Name: 1093488630580.0542
Address: 192.168.50.1

It’s this “1093488630580.0542” that I want to change for a meaningful name.

I am no DNS expert and I don’t know how this works but anyone can tracert through RouterOS and I am sure thay will see this number. It is something more like “Primary DNS Suffix” shown by windows ipconfig/all command, but I don’t know what a DNS suffix is.

Thanks for your help.
Guy

10

Either proxy all DNS requests on the router and set the desired name there (in “/ip dns static”), or contact your internal DNS server administrator to register the name there.