It's probably trying to resolve the addresses in your trace file to machine
names, and (if so) it's harmless.
Disabling Concurrent DNS requests in preferences may allow you to kill
ethereal in this situation.
--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lionel Bartlett [mailto:lbartlett@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 August 2003 15:45
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal v0.9.14, internet access
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Since installing Ethereal v0.9.14 when loading up some traces (not
> all), ethereal attempts to connect to the internet. I'm not
> able to get
> a trace of this cos I'm using adsl at the moment, but will check this
> out when I'm on a lan again.
>
> When I block it then I need to log out of Win because I can't kill
> ethereal with task manager, it just won't die.
>
> I'm a bit nervous for security reasons.
>
> Any reason for this?
>
> Thank you,
> Lionel
>
>
>
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