I’ve noticed when The Dude is set to auto discover a network it doesn’t check the machine’s names after the first time through.
Many of my machines are switched out weekly and a new device may end up using the IP as the one removed. The Dude assumes it’s the same box and doesn’t check to verify this. I think this needs to be changed in the next version.
If there’s a way to change this with the current release let me know.
Dudes discoverer doesn’t change or remove any stuff that is already present on map.
You should set ‘lookup’ to ‘name to address’ on all devices (you can select and change setings on more devices in one go). This will update your devices IP address every x minutes.
I don’t know if this can be made the default setting for newly discovered devices.
Could a future release be made to update this information on the auto discovery?
I’m working in a very fluid test environment and as it stands I have to delete my entire map and do a rediscover to keep up with devices coming and going.
You can of course also set ‘lookup’ to ‘address to name’ if you have a fixed set of IP addresses with changing devices…
If I’m not mistaken Address to Name requires a working reverse DNS to be established on the network. At the moment I do not have this and most device names are being discovered by NetBIOS.
Any other ideas?