Unable to resolve client machine names RB1100

Knowing if this is even a function provided by the RB1100 would go a long way here.

I have the RB1100 setup to do DHCP and DNS. DHCP works in that it tells the client it’s IP and provides the DNS’ to them. The clients see the RB1100 itself as the first DNS entry, then it sees the two ISP DNS’ as the second and third.

However, clients are not able to be referred to by machine name - only by IP address. So a ping to amachine fails, while a ping to 192.168.4.123 works fine. I also added a static entry for atest to a specific IP, and a ping to atest does not resolve to the IP either.

This is a small network (20 machines now) and I’m trying to avoid the business of building a DNS and DHCP server, if possible.

You probably need to have the full name in your static entries for it to work.
I have a naming scheme based on norse mythology.
My CRS is named heimdall, when i added asgard.lan to the name it worked.

Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - regexp
 #     NAME                                                                      ADDRESS                                                                                                      TTL
 0     heimdall.asgard.lan                                                       10.0.0.1                                                                                                     1d
 1     yggdrasil                                                                 10.0.0.2                                                                                                     1d
 2     tyr                                                                       10.0.0.3                                                                                                     1d
 3     loke                                                                      10.0.0.4                                                                                                     1d
 4     dagr                                                                      10.0.0.5                                                                                                     1d
 5     sol                                                                       10.0.0.6                                                                                                     1d
 6     njord                                                                     10.0.0.7                                                                                                     1d
 7     brage                                                                     10.0.0.8                                                                                                     1d



loke ~ » ping yggdrasil
ping: cannot resolve yggdrasil: Unknown host



loke ~ » ping heimdall
PING heimdall.asgard.lan (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.127 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.688 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.764 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=2.424 ms

Whops, I double posted. Sorry