How can I get meaningfull names in the "Host" column?

[mprowe]

This is a section from my STATUS page (https://w.x.y.z/cgi-bin/luci/admin/status/overview):

Is there any way to replace the string (fe80::b01e:dff:fec9:7383) with a host name?
I'm on OpenWRT 24.10.4

Regards, Martin

[frollic]

populate /etc/ethers, add it to sysupgrade.conf so it doesn't get wiped by future upgrades.

[lleachii]

• BTW, that string is an IP address
• In addition to the other user's comment, you might be able to determine why your clients aren't sending a hostname (depending on OS)

[dave14305]

If this is a dumb AP, there are scripts you can implement on the main router to copy hostnames to the AP. Depends what the main router OS is, however (OpenWrt or other).

Associated stations - making hostnames visible across multiple APs

FWIW, here's the approach I have taken. Feel free to ignore it or take bits from it that you like. Some background... In order to reduce writes to /etc/ethers on each AP, I symlink /etc/ethers (on each AP) to a location, /tmp/etc/ethers: root@AP-Office:~# ls -la /etc/ethers lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 22 15:40 /etc/ethers -> /tmp/etc/ethers I add the following to my /etc/rc.local file on each AP: if [ ! -f /tmp/etc/ethers ]; then touch /tmp/etc/ethers; fi ln -sf /tmp/etc…

[mprowe]

@lleachii

BTW, that string is an IP address

Tell me more... Can it be displayed as a number I'd recognise (w.x.y.z)?

[mprowe]

@dave14305

If this is a dumb AP,

Yes it it. I'll have a read through the link you provided. My first thought is that it may be more trouble than its worth? Adding to /etc/ethers seems to be doing the job nicely.

Regards, M.

[lleachii]

@mprowe

Can it be displayed as a number I'd recognise (w.x.y.z)?

I assume you mean a [recognizable] IPv4 address?

It's actually a link local IPv6 address.

@mprowe

Yes it it.

OK, the behavior (i.e., no hostname and IPv4) is because it's an AP.

[frollic]

@lleachii

OK, the behavior (i.e., no hostname and IPv4) is because it's an AP.

And any instruction for copying the names from the main router probably assume they both run OpenWRT.