Client list by hostnames, request counts per device

[nvpavatar]

Apple devices can have two or three MAC addresses for each network interface (2.4Ghz,5.2Ghz, eth), and sometimes can be present in the network by two or three IPs/MACs.

On my firewall, I assigned permanent DHCP leases for each device inerfaces and gave them same hostname. Some debug info from my technitium box:

$ arp -a | grep xxxMac
xxxMac.lan (192.168.1.44) at on eth0
xxxMac.lan (192.168.1.43) at 06:37:7f:xx:xx:xx [ether] on eth0
xxxMac.lan (192.168.1.45) at a0:ce:c8:xx:xx:xx [ether] on eth0
$ arp -a | grep xxxPhone
xxxPhone.lan (192.168.1.40) at 42:dd:7c:xx:xx:xx [ether] on eth0
xxxPhone.lan (192.168.1.41) at f8:38:80:xx:xx:xx [ether] on eth0

$ nslookup xxxMac
Server: 192.168.1.3
Address: 192.168.1.3#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: xxxMac.lan
Address: 192.168.1.43
Name: xxxMac.lan
Address: 192.168.1.45
Name: xxxMac.lan
Address: 192.168.1.44

$ nslookup xxxPhone
Server: 192.168.1.3
Address: 192.168.1.3#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: xxxPhone.lan
Address: 192.168.1.40
Name: xxxPhone.lan
Address: 192.168.1.41

As a result my client list looks like:

192.168.1.43 255
xxxmac.lan

192.168.1.44 261
xxxmac.lan

192.168.1.40 235
xxxphone.lan

192.168.1.41 145
xxxphone.lan

It would be great to have client list by hostnames. By this view you can see requests counts per device, not per device interface:

xxxmac.lan 516
192.168.1.43 255
192.168.1.44 261
192.168.1.45 0

xxxphone.lan 380
192.168.1.40 235
192.168.1.41 145

I created a bug issue #1982 by mistake, please close it

[ShreyasZare]

Thanks for the post and the suggestion. This is however now possible to do so. A reverse lookup may result in any domain name, it does not mean that the domain name would resolve to the same IP address back. Like, for example, my VPS IP currently resolves back to technitium.com, but I can make it resolve to apple.com too. So, it does not mean that if the hostnames match, its the same client.