LAN Orangutan: Self-Hosted Network Scanner for Homelabs
LAN Orangutan: Self-Hosted Network Scanner for Homelabs Anyone running a homelab knows the feeling. Half a dozen devices on the network, and you’re not sure which is which. MAC addresses blur together, IPs shuffle, and remembering “the little box in the closet is the PiHole” takes real detective work. LAN Orangutan is a self-hosted network scanner built for exactly that problem — it discovers devices on your LAN via nmap, labels them, and tracks them across scans. Network discovery is a solved problem in theory, but the usual tools live on a command line and forget everything between runs. That said, LAN Orangutan goes further: it ships as a single Go binary under MIT, sits at 494 stars on GitHub, and runs from a web UI or a JSON-output CLI. ...