Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Version 0.9.13a

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:11:57 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Guy Harris wrote:

> (Gerald, could this be made a run-time option if ADNS support is 
> compiled in, so you get a choice between
> 
> 	1) "gethostbyaddr()", which will use mechanisms other than DNS, but 
> which might take a *LONG* time to resolve names in some cases
> 
> and
> 
> 	2) GNU ADNS, which I think avoids some of the long-time lookup 
> problems but which can't resolve any IP address that's not in DNS?)

This is probably the best solution for now, although a better one might be
to add WINS support to ADNS.  I'll add a configuration preference for ADNS
before the next release.