What’s a Friendly Name?
If you’re running a busy network, there may be a whole lot of connections displayed in X-NetStat, making it hard to ascertain what each one is for. It’s your job to make sure that “good” connections are getting through, and “bad” ones aren’t. You can simplify this job by using Friendly Names.
Say that ultrabank.com (216.138.240.196) is a business partner of your firm and connects to your network occasionally for transaction processing. This would be a great address to recognize so that it is marked as a friendly, human-readable name when it shows up in X-NetStat.
Ultrabank.com is a business partner that frequents our network. Let’s recognize them.
Right click the connection and choose Recognize as.
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If you choose EXACT match, X-NetStat will ONLY recognize when either the IP or Hostname exactly matches the friendly name. For PARTIAL matches (see right), X-NetStat will recognize a connection even when a portion of the addresses match up. For example, by using “.ultrabank.com” and “216.138.240.” , X-NetStat will recognize all these addresses as “UB”:
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This connection is now recognized as UB (Ultrabank).
Connections that X-NetStat does not recognize are shown as ???