I don’t understand why mikrotik os use ip rather the fully qualified domain name. We have had to change the one of radius server ip. I had to change this in more then 100 router. When I change the radius ip in mikrotik as radius1.mydomain.com, it is converted to “1.2.3.4” WHY??? I have should change the ip only in DNS server. Can I ask remove this “convert” feature from OS?
this is asked before, so let me ask you:
how many times would the router check to which IP does the domain resolve? Once per minute? what if you have thousands of rules, with hundreds of thousands of packets going through the router? how would this impact performance, if all the time all your thousand domains would have to be resolved? and what to do if the domain resolved to twenty IP addresses? should all of them be used, or which ones?
too many issues.
this is why we give you control, and you can make scripts that resolve domain names, and update your radius settings.
And who teaches us to do scripting…?
So many people want this feature - can’t you guy’s then (the product develoopers who knows best about the product), design a ip - hostname resolving script to use?
Or at least chuck something on the wiki about how to script… User manuals are a necessity for any product. The more complicated the device, the more importent for a good user manual.
We’re blind here (me at least and I know I’m not alone). As soon as dynamic IP’s come into play your’e sc@#wed with any VPN setups, radius setups…pretty much any thing where 2 or more ROS machines need to communicate.
A product is as good as it’s supporting structure - or ease of use (which is not the case with any high end routers).
Help us out here please.
Even if it’s just bread crumbs, it would do…
here you go:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Scripting-examples#Resolve_host-name
also check scripting manual to learn syntax:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Scripting