Lightsquid not showing DNS names

mrpolitics

Ive tried every setting from IP to Squidauth, and all I can get Lightsquid to do is show the IP, but never the DNS entry for the machine. Any ideas?

dvserg

Ou must read description for LS fields and configure this for DNS resolve. All changes will apply for newest data only. All exists report will continue to remain as is.

running

I have the same problem but i dont understand wnat you mean. Can you explain
I also have tried MANY combination and it is alwase showing IP and nothing else

orc4hire

Set it to DNS, but the DNS server you have pfSense set to use has to be one that has reverse DNS entries for those IP addresses.

In other words, if this is your home Internet connection and you set pfSense to use DNS server 8.8.8.8, that server doesn't know anything about your workstations and isn't going to be very helpful. If you're running it in an office where there is a DNS server that has rDNS entries for the workstations, set pfSense to use that server and it should work.

(Try this: On your workstation open a command prompt and run 'nslookup <ip address="" of="" workstation="">'. If that query doesn't resolve a name, your DNS server doesn't have that information about your workstations.)</ip>

jimp

Also, even if you have pfSense set to register DHCP hostnames in DNS, that only works for clients on the LAN side, not for pfSense services. pfSense uses the external DNS servers for resolution, and not the internal DNS forwarder.

However, static DHCP leases and DNS overrides do work, IIRC, because they get written to /etc/hosts and are available to pfSense for that reason.

In 2.0 I believe this has (or will) change to have all of these hosts end up in /etc/hosts so it may not be a problem in future versions.

Seth

In an environment were pfSense is the only DNS server internally I have configured pfSense to look to itself first. This is what my config looks like.

Services | DNS Forwarder
check - Enable DNS forwarder
check - Register DHCP leases in DNS forwarder
check - Register DHCP static mappings in DNS forwarder

System | General Setup
DNS Servers
1st DNS Server - 127.0.0.1
2nd DNS Server - <your 1="" preferred="" external="" dns="" server="">3rd DNS Server - <your 2="" preferred="" external="" dns="" server="">With 1.2.3 you'll need Fit123 package. 2.0 includes a 3rd and 4th entry natively.

uncheck - Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WA</your></your>

mcs

Seth, does your configuration work, i.e. does LightSquid resolve hostnames in report? Because I have the same problem in environment with no local DNS server, pfSense is DHCP server for LAN workstations, static DHCP is not configured.

chudy

I would like to share this. somebody might interested.
pkg_add -r p5-Net-DNS
overwrite the file /usr/local/libexec/lightsquid/ip2name.dns with the code below.

#contributor: esl
#hacked chudy_fernandez@yahoo.com
#resolve hostname, cache it for speedup
# -- vim: filetype=perl

use Net::DNS::Resolver;

my $res = Net::DNS::Resolver->new(
               nameservers => [qw(127.0.0.1)],
               udp_timeout => 2,
               retry       => 1,
              #debug       => 1,
          );

sub StartIp2Name() {
  my $body = ReadDHCPConfig();

  while ($body =~ m/(\#[^\n]*\n)?lease ([0-9.]*)\s?\{(.*?)\}/sig) {
    my $tmp=$3;
    my $ip=$2;
    $tmp =~ m/client-hostname "(.*)"/;
    my $comp=$1;

    if ($comp ne ""){
        $hIP{$ip}=$comp;
			$id = $comp;
	$hRealName{$id}=$comp if ($user ne "");
    }
  }
}

sub Ip2Name($$$) {
# $Lhost,$user,$Ltimestamp
  my $ip=shift;
  if (!defined $hIP{$ip}) {

	if (my $pkt = $res->query($ip)) {
		for my $answer ( $pkt->answer() ) {
			my $type = $answer->type();
			if ($type eq "PTR") {
				$user = $answer->ptrdname();
			} elsif ($type eq "A") {
				$user = $answer->name();
			}
		}
	} else {
		$user=$ip;
	}

    $hIP{$ip}=$user;
  }
  return $hIP{$ip};
}

sub StopIp2Name() {
}

sub ReadDHCPConfig() {
  local $/;
  my $file;
  open FFAAAA,"<","/var/dhcpd/var/db/dhcpd.leases";
  $file=<ffaaaa>;
  close FFAAAA;
  return $file;
}

#warning !!!!
1;</ffaaaa>

I add the dhcpd leased bec dns will not show the old name, when client switch lan to wlan.

mcs

Interesting solution chiddy, could be helpful.

I have tried the solution of Seth and I can confirm that it works!