Unknown hostname everywhere except DHPC lease lease view?

Question

I&rsquo;ve noticed pretty much anywhere in the Sophos XG web UI it will show IP addresses with &ldquo;Unknown hostname&rdquo;, yet in the DHCP lease view it shows the actual hostname for each IP address. For example, in the ATP report view, it shows the IP address of a client that ATP blocked and underneath the IP address it just says &ldquo;Unknown hostname&rdquo;, but it&rsquo;s clearly not unknown as it shows up fine in the DHCP lease view. Any particular reason for this?

LuCar Toni · Accepted Answer

This is caused by the unrelated database behind such modules. The DHCP Module uses a database and the Reporting using a own database. 
 The story for the future is to use Central as a Database for everything (also Endpoints and other tools). So we do not need to use the relation between XG DHCP and for example ATP. We can simply extract the hostname of the Client, causing this ATP alert by the endpoint directly (including more information). 
 This is already possible with Central Firewall reporting.

Unknown hostname everywhere except DHPC lease lease view?

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