Dear Gurus
I am running windows 7 64 bit 192.168.88.2/24 DNS 192.168.88.1
I have setup DNS on Mikrotik with and entry like this:
somehostname001 192.168.2.200
But I cant ping it from my laptop I have to make an entry like somehostname001.domain.local and ping that instead......
HERE IS TEXT OUTPUTS
ipconfig of Windows 7 Machine
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : TKED-LT-001
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : BC-AE-C5-0B-EB-E3
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::6d55:1928:7332:7a46%11(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.89.200(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, February 24, 2012 5:27:33 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, February 27, 2012 5:27:32 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.89.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.89.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 297578181
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-16-C2-5C-07-BC-AE-C5-0B-EB-E3
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.89.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Mikrotik DNS
[admin@TFED-FW-001] /ip dns> print
servers: 192.168.2.1
allow-remote-requests: yes
max-udp-packet-size: 512
cache-size: 2048KiB
cache-max-ttl: 1w
cache-used: 41KiB
[admin@TFED-FW-001] /ip dns>
MIKROTIK STATIC ENTRIES
[admin@TFED-FW-001] /ip dns static> print
Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - regexp
NAME ADDRESS TTL
0 mikrotik.mik.local 192.168.89.1 1d
1 somehostname001.domain.local 192.168.2.200 1d
2 mikrotik 192.168.89.1 1d
3 somehostname001 192.168.2.200 1d
[admin@TFED-FW-001] /ip dns static>
Windows Ping Errors and nslookup Results
HOSTNAME PING
C:\Users\Travis>ping somehostname001
Ping request could not find somehostname001. Please check the name and try aga
in.
FULLNAME PING
C:\Users\Travis>ping somehostname001.domain.local
Pinging somehostname.domain.local [192.168.2.200] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.2.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.2.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.2.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.2.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=63
Ping statistics for 192.168.2.200:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
NSLOOKUP
C:\Users\Travis>nslookup
Default Server: mikrotik
Address: 192.168.89.1
somehostname001
Server: mikrotik
Address: 192.168.89.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: somehostname001
Address: 192.168.2.200
Why Cant Windows ping the 192.168.2.200 by just somehostname001
Why Do I have to use somehostname001.domain.local????? if Windows is using the Mikrotik as DNS Server?
