wireguard-hosts file

[Inrin]

Maybe instead of an external file, why not add an option like Alias/Nick/Displayname/Peername?
This would have the benefit of keeping the public key in display.

For the get going you might use (GNU) sed or similar to achieve this feature.
Create a file peernames as follows:

   s|<BASE64>|my nice peername|
   s|<BASE64>|my other peername|

and pipe wg through sed:
   wg | sed -f peernames

Of course you can get more creative. Maybe keep the public key there.
I'm not sure how to keep the colouring though.

PS:
I'm not sure if BSDs or others SED support changing / in substitutions.

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 05:01:49PM +0100, jens wrote:
>i really would love to have a feature like wireguard-hosts file.
>whereas wg command would print given "name" instead of key - so the
>output would be more meaningfull
>We have some wireguard running in server like infrastructure, where one
>server serves dozens of "clients"
>
>so instead of
>peer: l9FxaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaU=
>we would have something alike
>peer: superhero downtown
>
>some of you may be familar with batman-adv layer2 routing protocol,
>there they also have a batctl which is working pretty similar to wg tool.
>there you can add a bat-hosts file which is doing the job, which totaly
>works likes any hosts file
>a normal hosts file maps ip to name,
>a bat-hosts file maps mac addresses to name,
>a wg-hosts file would map keys to name.
>
>i found the sources for bat-hosts ( .c .h .sample ) here
>https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2019.5/batctl-2019.5.tar.gz
>
>is this something maybe usefull to other also?
>is there a chance to have this implemented by default?
>
>thx for answers.
>fuzzle
>
>--
>make the world nicer, please use PGP encryption


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