Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal shows this machine name for IP 0.0.0.0

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:04:11 -0800 (PST)
> My original question wasn't clear enough.  Ethereal converts a source IP 
> address of 0.0.0.0 to the name of the machine on which Ethereal is 
> running.

Ethereal converts a source IP address to whatever the "gethostbyname()"
routine, on the platform on which you're running, returns as the name.

I have no idea why "gethostbyname()" translated 0.0.0.0 to the name of
your host on W2K; you might want to check with Microsoft on that.