Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can Ethereal use a hosts file?

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:26:35 +0100
On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 4:36 am, Kirk Hobart wrote:
> Since 0.9.13, Ethereal won't resolve any machine names on our LAN. It
> resolves external names such as google.com just fine. Maybe that's
> because we use WINS instead of DNS for internal names. I'm running
> Windows 2000.
>
> Can Ethereal read some sort of hosts file to assist IP name
> resolution? I'd be happy to create one. It seems to ignore my Windows
> hosts file.
>
> Yes I have selected "enable network name resolution".

The ability to do this was re-added in 0.9.14 (IIRC) but you have to 
switch it on.

Look under preferences->name resolution for "parallel name resolution", 
(or similar) and turn it off.

-- 
Richard Urwin