Gary thank you for the quick response below is a response from the web
gui for last contacted peers.

Last Contacted Peers

Sent To                IP Address
ff02::1:ff3d:37d4       ff02::1:ff3d:37d4
ff02::1:ff79:9cdc       ff02::1:ff79:9cdc
ff02::1:ff9f:e429       ff02::1:ff9f:e429
ff02::1:3                       ff02::1:3
224.0.0.252            224.0.0.252
ff02::1:ffb2:6cd1       ff02::1:ffb2:6cd1
ff02::1:2       ff02::1:2
Total Contacts  23


I am also missing the packet statistics section. how would i enable that?

Thank you

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Gary Gatten <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not certain I understand your question.  However, I personally have never 
> seen host names in the "Last Contacted Peers" (LCP) table.  Even if 1.1.1.1 
> resolves to www.gary.net and is displayed in other reports as www.gary.net, 
> it always shows up as 1.1.1.1 in the LCP table.  For me this has always been 
> the case - as far as I recall.  Someone recently posted a similar question / 
> statement, claiming his LCP WAS showing hostnames until an ntop upgrade, and 
> he tweaks the name res options (-n 2 I think) and it started displaying names 
> again.  Perhaps google for ntop and Last Contacted Peers and see what you 
> find, this thread was in the last 4 - 8 weeks IIRC.
>
> As for the resolution process in general; ntop "sniffs" packets as well as 
> performs name/IP lookups.  It's typically pretty good at resolving things.
>
> Also, from my experience multicast IP's are nearly impossible to resolve to a 
> host / unicast IP address.  Some are well known / reserved, but 224.0.0.52 
> appears to not be.
>
> I'm thinking I didn't answer your question, but hopefully at least pointed 
> you in the right direction.
>
> G
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of casey rhoads
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Ntop] Last Contacted Peers
>
> I have installed NTOP 4.0.3 on arch linux it shows all last contacted
> peers that are outside of the network as multicast dns such as
> 224.0.0.52 i need to change this to the actual name of the website.
>
> How would i go about getting these to resolve to websites.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Casey
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