host names 23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)

gjkrisa

since the newer update 23.09.1 and 2.7.2 my hostname do not show up in traffic graphs is this an issue or did that add something that im missing

jrey

@gjkrisa

So when you say "my hostname" what do you mean ? local hosts or remote? or both? So you only and always only see IP addresses?

if you go to Diagnostics -> DNS Lookup and enter the IP for something you know will be on the traffic list do you get the PTR Record type and name?

On the traffic graph do you have "display" set to Host Name or FQDN?
Netgate's forum for example

Host Name shows you forum
FQDN shows you forum.netgate.com

maybe some more detail, would be helpful. but certainly names do display on both versions referenced.

johnpoz

@gjkrisa hostname, the actual fqdn for an IP will show up if you tell it to show those.. IF pfsense can actually resolve the IP to the fqdn..

Showing hostname is just showing the host portion of the fqdn.. But for that to work IP does need to resolve to a fqdn.

Did you maybe switch over to kea for your dhcp, which does not as of yet support registration of dhcp or dhcp registration into dns.. So if you were registering host.yourdomain.tld via dhcp those are not going to be there any more, and then no those IPs would not resolve to hostname/fqdn for that to work..

If your wanting to resolve that info, then you would have to create host overrides, or some other method for pfsense to resolve the PTRs of the IPs

gjkrisa

@johnpoz
yes even on isc it still will not show local host that I have saved.
this just started with the newer update.
I only know how to do this by adding entry into dhcp mapping.
only one that shows is pfsense name.

johnpoz

@gjkrisa said in host names 23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64):

I only know how to do this by adding entry into dhcp mapping.

Because you have dhcp registering static reservations. But prob don't have normal dhcp set because it constantly restarts dns and not really good setting to have enabled.

If you want your stuff to resolve, give them registrations or setup dhcp to register even though unbound is going to restart on any dhcp activity..

But again if dns can not resolve the IP to a name, ie PTR then no they are not going to show up in the traffic graph.

gjkrisa

@johnpoz ok i didn’t understand what you were saying but guess it helped me figure out where to look.
I made it work by going to dhcp and allowing dhcp reservation, static and vpn.
thank you.

you say i should not allow static reservation? because it will cause unbound to restart frequently ?

SteveITS

@gjkrisa The ISC DHCP daemon restarts unbound at each lease renewal. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/5413

Kea DHCP (preview/beta) doesn’t support registrations yet.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-7-1.html#kea-dhcp-server-feature-preview-now-available

gjkrisa

@SteveITS ok thank you.

johnpoz

@gjkrisa said in host names 23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64):

you say i should not allow static reservation?

No static reservations don't reload unbound at every renewal - normal dhcp registration does those.. See the link provided by @SteveITS

I reserve all the the things I would ever want to resolve, which is pretty much everything.