Hi
I set static lease for those IP's. And I can see their full names in "Static Lease" under Network section.
But in Luci Summary I see it that way. With "-" names... And the top one is also cut after esp.
It should be esp.Intercom ..
Why it's happening?
(Redmi AX6, SNAPSHOT)
Correct - what's the issue?
It seems normal, what's the issue?
Do those devices even announce a hostname to the DHCP server? 
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If you want “intercom” as domain name you need to change lan to intercom in the dhcp domain settings.
You can’t have a ‘.’ in the client name. It needs to be - or _.
As far as I can remember a ‘-‘ means a address is given with isn’t 12h lease but the client isn’t connected or has left?
In my case, it's a device that doesn't announce a hostname when requesting a lease. The device is online.
(My example photo is of an Ama$on Echo device. They don't announce a hostname when requesting a lease.)
I've also seen this in the case of 2 devices with an idetical hostname. The 1st device will show "-" once the 2nd device gets a lease.
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What the device do isn’t really important for dnsmasq and static leases as long as the device use DHCP client mode. You can put in a hostname to a mac and that name show up in the lease list.
For example RaspberryPi usually have the internal hostname RaspberryPi as default and you can have a completely different hostname in the dhcp server.
But if you change hostname to localhost in the raspberrypi o/s the it gets the name from the dhcp server.
And the PhilipsHUE hub announce the mac address as a standard hostname but you can make a static lease in dnsmasq to have PhilipsHue as name in the lease list for that mac address but still with a “random” IP. And the HUE hub still thinks everyone knows it by the mac address.
Thanks lleachii. i am having a same situation and am inspired by your answer to investigate. it appears to be a bug in openwrt reading the hostname, specifically in the question esp.something.something will be interpreted as esp alone, and will encounter a duplicate issue if othet device is also esp so showing up as -
Use - instead of . solves the problem