No DHCP hostname in Windows DHCP server
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matthew....@wf.catholic.edu.au,
Mar 10 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.109 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Join wireless network - check DHCP service on Windows server What is the expected behavior? See a hostname What went wrong? No hostname Did this work before? No Chrome version: 48.0.2564.109 Channel: n/a OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2) Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0 There are numerous reasons a network administrator may wish to identify a device on the network if you the IP. For example from my router I can see which IP's are consuming internet bandwidth. From the DHCP server I can't see a hostname but I can get a mac address - but a mac address isn't searchable in the Chrome management console. Either we need to set the default hostname as a chrome management console searchable field eg. serial number or we need to be able to search by MAC on the console. This is sort of similar to issue # 126802 but rather than being able to add a hostname I would be happy to at least have the serial number as the default/advertised hostname so I can identify a device which will give me the user so I know who to yell at. Thanks Matt
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Mar 16 2016
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Mar 16 2016
Not sure who should take this. Historically there are multiple requests of this kind. Most of them don't take into account the possible privacy implications of broadcasting unique information about the device on connecting to a network. Presumably this could be done per-network via some enterprise policy. b/24162121 covers all the infrastructural items needed in the connection manager. Further work in Chrome (presumably enterprise) will need to be done to fulfill this request.
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Mar 16 2016
Thanks, Paul! David, how do you feel about this feature?
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Mar 16 2016
We had a similar request from a customer that wanted to do DHCP fingerprinting. Their DHCP servers were seeing Chromebooks as Linux machines and they had no way to add network privileges by differentiating Chromebooks from e.g. Linux printers. So I definitely see value in introducing an enterprise knob for this. pstew@ helped us add the groundwork but we never got the cycles to put it into Chrome.
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Mar 22 2016
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Apr 14 2016
Any timeline on adding this feature? I have many chromeboxes deployed in an enterprise environment, and it would be a huge help to have hostnames on these boxes, and be able to see them in DHCP (for in turn dynamically updating DNS). Right now to effectively monitor the devices we must create DHCP reservations or statically assign IPs. With a hostname feature the Chromeboxes could just be monitored by hostname, which makes it much easier to provision these boxes. Thanks for any info!
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Apr 18 2016
Issue 597859 has been merged into this issue.
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May 29 2016
At the moment the device name shows in the DCHP server as a blank.... it would a significant step better if the hostname was "chromebook" or similar (perhaps from the DeviceType value in about://system. This would at least allow you to identify the machines that are chromebooks without having the check the MAC address... slightly more helpful, and probably not that difficult to implement :-)
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Comment 1 by kavvaru@chromium.org
, Mar 16 2016Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)