I don't have the subsiquent email to this here at work, maybe you sent it to
me only, Kirk. I have checked the behavior of Enable MAC Name Resolution,
and there does seem to be an Ethereal bug.
Windows 2K fully patched
Ethereal 0.9.15
Winpcap 2.3
TCP/IP/Ethernet
Capturing with MAC Name Resolution enabled stops Network Name resolution.
To demonstrate:
Capture with Network Name resolution on and MAC Name resolution off.
The IP addresses are resolved correctly.
Capture again with both Network Name and MAC Name resolution on.
The IP addresses in common with the first capture may or may not be resolved
correctly*. New addresses will not be resolved. See enclosed screen capture.
* I had an ARP exchange resolved correctly, but previous and subsiquent
packets involving one of those machines were not resolved.
--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Urwin [mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 September 2003 16:27
> To: Kirk Hobart; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can Ethereal use a hosts file?
>
>
> 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
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