I don't really think this will help. Very rare is the user who will
RTFM, particularily when they are first using the program. I can't say
how many times I've had people email me questions for which I can
email back a link to a section in the current users manual that
DIRECTLY answers their question. I don't ming these sorts of questions
( always glad to help ), and am in favor of augmenting the documentation
to be able to provide more of these sorts of answers, but trying to
overcome confusing defaults by *only* fixing the documentation is not
really a solution.
Ed
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 09:55, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> Maybe what this really indicates is a documentation bug. The current
> behavior *is* somewhat mysterious when it strikes. How about a prominent
> notice in the documentation:
>
> By default, Ethereal will attempt to look up names for captured
> IP addresses. If you have no DNS server, or if your capture
> includes packets from hosts whose names are not maintained
> locally, you may experience unreasonable delays before the
> captured data are displayed. You may change this behavior by
> deselecting "Enable network name resolution" under "Name
> resolution" in the preferences editor (Edit | Preferences) or
> by altering the value of 'name_resolve' in your Ethereal
> preferences file. (See FILES in the Ethereal man page for the
> location of the preferences.)
>
> --
> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@xxxxxxxxx
> MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".
>
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