I have an Asus RT-N66U running in repeater mode. My clients connecting through the repeater all shows up with the same hostname in pi-hole. Seems like all these devices are bunched up under the same mac address of the Asus repeater. Is there a way to only show IP address instead of hostnames?
This is fairly typical with some repeaters.
If I hover over each duplicate hostname, it shows the correct IP address of the clients which are unique. So my question still remains, can you make pi-hole just show IP addresses of the clients rather than resolving and showing the hostnames?
With IPv6, it would be normal that the same hostname would be associated with a an IPv4 and multiple IPv6 addresses, which also could result in multiple hostnames for the device NIC showing up in Pi-hole's dashboard.
Are you positive that you are seeing IPs of different devices?
If so:
Pi-hole's primary means of associating a name to an IP address would be a reverse DNS lookup.
In addition, Pi-hole can try to collate IP addresses by MAC addresses as observed from its host system's neighbour tables.
This can be controlled via the following options in pihole-FTL.conf:
NAMES_FROM_NETDB
PARSE_ARP_CACHE.
After setting or editing a value for any of those options, make sure to apply them by running
pihole restartdns
I set the names from netdb to false and looks like it's doing what I wanted. Thanks!
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