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    Hostnames don't resolve without local domain

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      marvosa
      last edited by marvosa

      It works on your DHCP clients because the dhcp server is providing a DNS suffix to your clients. For statically configured clients, if you don't have a domain to join, then you will need to add the DNS suffix manually on each client:

      2019-03-27 18_12_37-Domain_suffix.png

      Otherwise, you will have to do lookups via FQDN.

      So outside of implementing AD or an AD equivalent, you basically have 4 options to achieve your objective (only two of which are reasonable IMO):

      1. Manually add a DNS suffix to each statically assigned client
      2. Change all static clients to DHCP and use DHCP static mappings instead of configuring static IP's.
      3. If you have access to MS Server, you could deploy a WINS server, add the WINS server to your DHCP scope and configure the WINS server on all your static clients. However, you would be reverting back to a deprecated protocol developed in the 80's and relying on NetBIOS instead of DNS. I don't really consider this an effective option, but since it would technically work, I just threw it out there. ;)
      4. Manually edit the etc\hosts file on each device. Which in this day and age is just as absurd as running a WINS server... LoL
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      • emammadovE
        emammadov
        last edited by

        Thank you very much.

        Elvin

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        • KnoxsonK
          Knoxson Banned
          last edited by

          Finally I found some useful information.

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          • BerryHornB
            BerryHorn
            last edited by

            To be honest I didn't understood anything that you wrote there, but I need a little bit of help.

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            • JKnottJ
              JKnott @BerryHorn
              last edited by

              @BerryHorn

              Perhaps I'm missing something, but it might help if you mentioned what your problem is.

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by johnpoz

                can almost promise you those are spammers @JKnott

                But until they actually spam something, not really right to delete and ban..

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Yup. Spam incoming....

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                  • BerryHornB
                    BerryHorn @johnpoz
                    last edited by

                    @johnpoz I am not a spammer but thank you that you take care of it.

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                    • BerryHornB
                      BerryHorn @JKnott
                      last edited by BerryHorn

                      @JKnott Thank you my friend, I found someone that already fixed everything. Appreciate that!

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        What was your problem, if you're not a spammer?

                        What was the solution?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @johnpoz
                          last edited by

                          @johnpoz Ha, that took a while. 😉

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