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LAN Orangutan 3.3 Tells You What Every Device Is
The biggest update yet gives every device a type and an icon, friendly names and security flags.
LAN Orangutan 3.3 is its biggest update yet: it now tells you what everything on your network actually is.
- Every device gets a type and an icon (phone, printer, TV, router, server and more), worked out from its vendor, its name and, optionally, the services it runs.
- Friendly names for devices that do not answer reverse DNS, including Windows machines and anything that announces itself over mDNS, such as printers and streaming devices.
- Security flags for devices exposing something risky, such as Telnet or FTP.
- It notices when a device changes its IP address and remembers where it has been.
- It finds more, including IPv6 devices that most simple scanners skip.
The same day, LAN Orangutan was a pick on the LINUX Unplugged podcast.