Things DNS IP Buttons

Neal_Brenard · June 20, 2020, 6:25pm

DNS & IP buttons on the things tab don’t do anything. What are they supposed to do?

Ken_GlassWire · June 21, 2020, 9:25pm

@Neal_Brenard

If your “Things” have DNS names it will sort by DNS instead of the IP address. Some networks won’t show the DNS though.

Tarun · June 25, 2020, 7:32am

I can confirm this. It used to get the DNS names from my router, but now having DNS selected just shows the LAN IP.

Ken_GlassWire · June 25, 2020, 11:22am

@Tarun

Your DNS names do not resolve with GlassWire under “Things”? Please confirm your version of GlassWire. Sorry for the issue.

GlassWare · June 25, 2020, 10:17pm

I agree with Tarun, i am using current version 2.2.210

csdfg2 · June 25, 2020, 11:16pm

I checked this myself just now and on my machine, Things>DNS shows me DNS names while Things>IP shows LAN IP addresses. Version 2.2.210.

Tarun · June 26, 2020, 8:39am

2.2.210 +20 characters…

Y4niv · June 26, 2020, 8:58am

It works for me but not so well, it only gets a name for a very small amount of devices out of all of the recognised devices and for my Technicolor router it now displays “google.com” as the DNS name

Neal_Brenard · June 26, 2020, 10:31am

Okay. This appears to work. Most of the “things” on my network are nameless devices, so I didn’t notice the change when I clicked the DNS button. One does, and its DNS is shown as expected when sorting by DNS. Thanks for advice.