Feature request: host list

RouterOS General
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Some devices/servers have static IP addresses, and they are referenced in several places: DHCP Server, Firewall, NTP… You have to write down the same address everywhere. But what if those addresses ever change? You’d have to check all your router’s configuration!

It would be great to have a place to register this hosts: just a name and an IP address. Then, you could reference it in router’s configuration. For instance:

  • firewall nat rule’s “To Addresses” field


  • firewall rules’ “Src. Address”/“Dst Address” fields.


  • DHCP Server’s “Address” field.


  • SNTP Client’s “Primary/Secondary NTP Server”.


  • member of an Address List

Some kind of implied security is needed to avoid deleting a host used in other place.
If you change IP address of a host, configuration is automatically adapted to the new address, as Address Lists changes do.

Wouldn’t it be great?

P.S.: Maybe this can be achieved with variables and scripting, but I’m not so expert user, just an amateur Winbox user :wink:

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Whats wrong with “Address list” definable in IP/Firewall?

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  • firewall nat rule’s “To Addresses” field

usable address-list to fill this filed? NO

  • firewall rules’ “Src. Address”/“Dst Address” fields.

usable address-list to fill this filed? YES

  • DHCP Server’s “Address” field.

(I think gateway and other parameters on networks?) usable address-list to fill this filed? NO

  • SNTP Client’s “Primary/Secondary NTP Server”.

usable address-list to fill this filed? NO

  • member of an Address List

??? what mean ???


Are these features necessary? for me NO

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The “check all your router’s configuration” is not hard.. make an export of the configuration (text file) and search for the address in this file.