Re: Zenmap IP (host) sort not octet aware

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:07:32AM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:07:05PM -0500, Norris Carden wrote:
> > In Zenmap, when sorting the list of ports/hosts by the Host column, the
> > sort of IPs without host names is not octet-aware... meaning it sorts
> > like Excel, not like an IP address aware software. This is how it sorts:
> >
> > 10.1.1.1
> > 10.1.1.10
> > 10.1.1.2
> > 10.1.1.20
> > 10.1.1.3
> > 10.1.1.30
> >
> > It would be very helpful if this sort was made to be aware that it was
> > sorting IP addresses in order to present in this fashion:
> >
> > 10.1.1.1
> > 10.1.1.2
> > 10.1.1.3
> > 10.1.1.10
> > 10.1.1.20
> > 10.1.1.30
>
> That's a good point. I can't even get it to sort as in the first
> example. (It's sorting by default these three addresses like this:
>
> 192.168.0.21
> 192.168.0.1
> 192.168.0.190
>
> It looks to me like clicking on the Host column to sort is only sorting
> by operating system icon. (See how a little arrow appears in both column
> headers.) Sorting by address independently would be more useful.

I implemented sorting by IP address. It will be in the next release. The
options for sorting by hostname are less important and are not
implemented now.

David Fifield
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