Please bring mDNS repeater feature in Rosv7. It is a very important feature for home routers.
This is only an issue if you start fiddling around with multiple LAN / VLAN’s
Guess what, like 0.00001% or something of “home users” is actually toying around with that in their home setup.
Don’t get your hopes up to see it integrated into RouterOS. I think similar requests are echoing through the dungeons of this forum for many years now…
Made my day! 
A pretty neat feature and often required here. It’s usually good for sharing printers in work environment, rather than for home. However, for home could be useful too, people are just lazy now to make some complicated setups of their networks. But Mikrotik is a complicated device, it’s strange they still ignore mDNS repeater. Who need “plug-and-play” device will not go Mikrotik way. Look at OpenWRT-enabled devices, there you could install any package you want. Or use your home NAS/RPi/etc. for this feature.
OpenWrt has relayd and a dedicated interface type for this task. But relayd is limited to IPv4. I once had such a setup running.
even the edgerouter has a mdns repeater..
Ever home user needs mDNS. Don’t know why mikrotik keeps ignoring this.
Ever home user needs mDNS.
I am a home user and do not need it.
Why is your assumption so absolute?
It is absolute-ly false.
My 4,000 contracts (home and business), corresponding to more than 16,000 people,
do not have it and no one has ever complained about it.
Please explain which critical part of the home network does not work without mDNS.
Thanks.
I keep my IoT on a separate vlan, I have my smart tv and google home devices on the same IoT vlan. How do I connect the smart tv and google home from my Wifi that is on a separate vlan?
(please do not quote on useless way, use “post reply” instead)
I keep my IoT on a separate vlan = VLAN of IoT devices
I have my smart tv and google home devices on the same IoT vlan = TV and Google Home on same VLAN of IoT devices
How do I connect the smart tv and google home from my Wifi that is on a separate vlan?
But on previous description do not are already on same VLAN of IoT devices ???
The mDNS is not the tool for do that…
Solution is extremely simple:
Create one virual wlan for other IoT devices, TV and Google Home, than work on same VLAN of IoT devices…
Do not have any sense make separate VLAN of IoT devices and then set Google and Smart TV on “main” Wi-Fi
Hege muchechilen sokale? na orom bhabhei chole esheychen dalali korte?
traduction:
You touch the wrong cable…
you may want to put your TV or your dishwasher on an IOT VLAN so it can access to internet but not other vlans, and still want make it discoverable for the familly vlan so they can start the dishwasher or lookt at the TV from their devices?
Another example is to put your printer on a vlan for the same reason, you want it upgradable/maintainable remotely . But you want also to make it discoverable easily.
@benoitc why you write that quoting my post?
to reply to your “Do not have any sense make separate VLAN of IoT devices and then set Google and Smart TV on “main” Wi-Fi” . I may have misunderstood. But as I understand the principle, devices were on IOT vlan but accessed from others. And then you need an MDNS repeater
To those people asking for mDNS, can you give examples where it will be useful?
Rextended provided solutions for the given examples. Maybe there are more examples?
I.e. network printers in wired network shared with VLAN of wireless clients. Connections to printers are allowed by firewall, but mDNS are not routed so users must enter IP addresses rather than use auto-discovery feature.
Hello,
it would be useful because of apple.
One of our customers had the problem, that some of his hotspot users log in and close the status site.
After some time, they want to log out and they find it to complicated to use a url with an IP in it,
so I set up a static dns entry like ‘router.customer.local’ and it worked for all PCs and Laptops, but the iPhone couldn’t resolve it.
After some sniffing I found only mDNS requests. Google found me an article that says, that Apple devices uses mDNS by local domains.
So mDNS would be helpful in his setting.
Hello normis,
Actually, he did not provide any solution.
mDNS repeater is needed in the case that you have an IoT vlan and you need to interact to those devices from your main vlan.
For e.g. A phone connected to the main vlan needs to “cast” content to a smart tv on the restricted IoT vlan. and just to avoid any “why you connect your phone to the IoT vlan?” because it is not the solution.
in 2021 mDNS Repeater is a must.
You do not catch the point, (ignore mDNS) why make separate IoT VLAN if than must be continuosly on contact with “MAIN” VLAN?
True nonsense!!!