Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] tethereal does DNS lookups when not required

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From: "Raghu Angadi" <rangadi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:03:08 -0800 (PST)
Hi,

ethereal is a wonderful software. I use it very and love it.

Why does tethreal do DNS lookups when I am just writing the packets to
another file?

eg: 

dump is 150MB

tethreal -s2000 -r dump -w 1st10secs 'frame.time_relative <= 10'

is much much slower than

tethreal -nn -s2000 -r dump -w 1st10secs 'frame.time_relative <= 10'

because it does DNS lookups.

btw,
caps> tethereal -v
tethereal 0.8.20, with GLib 1.2.10, with libpcap 0.6, with libz 1.1.3,
with UCD SNMP 4.2

I would look into the code but thought one of you could fix it easily.
please cc me in resp since I am not subscribed to the list.

Thanks,
Raghu.