I recently installed an RB2011 into a network that was already operating well with a different router. It’s running the default router configuration. Everything is working well, but it seems that I lost the ability to access devices on the LAN by hostname. I have to use IP addresses for everything. With the previous router, I was able to access devices by hostname.
I see the hostnames listed in the DHCP Client table, so I know they’re there.
Is there a setting I need to make to enable this functionality?
Mikrotik doesn’t support dynamic DNS entry creation like this (at least not that I’m aware of).
The best you can do right now is to define static entries in DNS. Creating such an entry does at least work for both forward and reverse mapping, so there’s that…
Perhaps a feature request for IP dhcp-server to be able to create dns cache entries based on leases is in order…
I don’t know how to formally submit a request, but I think this would be a great feature to have. All of the information is already available, so it should be a relatively simple addition. Many other “lesser” routers have this capability already.