how to access/ping the host on LAN by hostname instead of ip

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Here is my simple network scenario, in which mikrotik is everything(firewall,dhcp,dns etc).

I am able to ping/access the hosts on LAN by their ip but i can’t be able to access them or ping them by using hostname.
can somebody tell me how i can accomplish this task please?

thanks

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First you need to make sure the machines on your LAN use your router as their primary DNS.

Then, for anything with a static address:

/ip dns static add address=192.168.1.10 name=server1

For machines that get their address via DHCP you would need to write a script that scans through your DHCP leases and maps client-id to assigned address. Someone posted an example of this not to long ago so a search should turn it up pretty quickly.

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I already did this but it didn’t make any difference. i still can’t be able to access the host by its hostname but still can access by ip.

any idea?

thanks

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Do the names show up if you list the static DNS entries and the cached entries?

/ip dns static print
/ip dns cache print

If you use nslookup and specify the name server as your router does it resolve the names?

nslookup YOUR_HOSTNAME_HERE YOUR_ROUTER_IP_HERE
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Here is the result of all the commands that you mentioned:

Note: (srv is a ubuntu 10.04 LTS server)

Also Wireshark capture, may be it will give some hint!

thanks in advance

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I am able to solve this problem and here is what i did.

*I simply install the samba on ubuntu server using (sudo apt-get install samba smbfs), by doing this, i am able to ping ubuntu server from my windows host.

  • To ping my windows host from ubuntu server, i simply install winbind by using (sudo apt-get install winbind) and after that i am able to ping all of my windows clients from ubuntu server.

I hope this will help the other, who faced the same/similar problem.

thanks

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I believe if you use a single name such as “srv” it will look for the IP via NETBIOS and will fail. If your server has a fully qualified domain name, such as srv.local and then were to add srv.local in the Mikrotik DNS server, I think you will have better luck as it will then use DNS correctly?

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we can integrate the Mikrotik router with Windows 2k8 Active Directory?

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what do you mean ‘integrate’? It can’t replace the DNS server within 2k8, no.

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Like, I want that my mikrotik act as dhcp server and Win2K8 R2 act as DNS with the role of DC and my mikrotik automatically update DNS record on it (a.ka. A record).

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I believe that without some scripting, Dynamic DNS updates from the DHCP server is not possible