Names beside inside addresses

Reverse lookups (internal/names, POST /names) put a name beside each
inside address in connections, the log, quota usage, the dashboard's
quotas and the statistics' devices and blocked sources, in the web UI
and hc (--no-names to leave them out). Only inside addresses are looked
up: an inside zone's networks, and private ones outside the external
zones'. Names are cached (names.cache, 10m) and never stored;
names.resolver picks the DNS server.

Also: hc stats top devices listed each device twice; the dashboard's
quotas named the rule's ID twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| `stats.top_n` | `100` | entries kept per top list, per hour and per day |
| `shadow.enabled` | `false` | shadow mode: Housecarl's ruleset is loaded beside the firewall you have, but blocks, rejects and translates nothing; its counters, log and tracer show what it would do. No change is on probation, and takeovers and closing connections are refused ([shadow.md](shadow.md)) |
| `shadow.position` | `after` | where Housecarl's filter chains run in shadow mode: `after` the other firewall's (`filter + 10`: it sees only what that one lets through, so what it would drop is what switching would break) or `before` them (`filter - 10`: it sees every packet) |
| `names.enabled` | `true` | show inside addresses' names beside them, found by reverse lookups (below) |
| `names.resolver` | `""` | the DNS server to ask, such as `10.10.0.1:53`; empty: the system's (`/etc/hosts`, then `/etc/resolv.conf`) |
| `names.cache` | `10m` | how long a name, or the lack of one, is kept |
Durations are written `15s`, `12h` or `30d`.
Shadow mode is here, and not a firewall setting, so that no user or API
token can switch enforcement off; restart housecarld to switch.
### Names
The web UI and `hc` show a name beside each **inside** address in
connections, the log, quotas and traffic per device: `laptop
192.168.1.20`. Housecarl finds it with a reverse (PTR) lookup, so the
names are your reverse zones' (and `/etc/hosts`'). An address counts as
inside when it is in a network connected to an inside zone's interface,
or private (`10.0.0.0/8`, `172.16.0.0/12`, `192.168.0.0/16`, `fc00::/7`)
and not in an external zone's network. Outside addresses get no name:
their reverse zones belong to whoever holds the addresses, who would
choose the names, and looking up every scanner is slow.
Names are looked up when a page or `hc` asks, cached (a failed lookup is
tried again after a minute), and never stored: statistics stay by
address. With a split DNS (views), the server asked must answer the
firewall as an inside client; set `names.resolver` if the system's
resolver doesn't. IPv6 traffic per device is counted per /64, which has
no name. `hc --no-names` leaves them out.
The probation's length is a firewall setting, not here: `hc settings set
--probation 5m`. So is counting traffic per device for the statistics:
`hc settings set --stats-per-device on`.