Client Status confused with similar names

[john9527]

Looks like the Client Status list gets confused when there are similar hostnames. Here's a couple of screen shots to illustrate the problem. I use a '-' in the name to indicated wired connection.....a '_' to indicate wireless.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Bad resolution...
Interesting. What happens if you refresh?

 

[john9527]

Starts out with the correct names, but both entries with the same IPs.....then as it continues to refresh, the names become identical.

 

[thelonelycoder]

What does ping return if you
ping NP-whatever
and
ping NP_whatever ?

 

[john9527]

Actually, only the '-' is active. It's a Roku.....only 1 interface is active at a time, and I had switched it from wired to wireless and back to wired (this fixes a Roku problem for me). So the '_' wireless lease is an old lease.

But, the interesting thing is I can't ping the active wired '-' interface....could not find host.....

 

[john9527]

Just to close this out.....I think I figured out what is happening. It seems as if this is how the firmware handles the case where there are two interfaces/leases to a client that returns the hostname during DHCP, creating a hostname conflict. It looks like it wipes out the status of the older of the two leases with the info from the latest.

So, if you see this, I believe it means you have (or had) more that one connection to a client.