Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] hostname substitued in trace for ip withoutusingDNS
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I did that an it did not work but I found an
article that describes how to get the DNS lookup to go to your hosts file first
by puting 127.0.0.1 at the head of the DNS lookup order list. I will try
this next but I would prefer that there was some way to make it look there and
only there. I guess I can do that by not having any other DNS entries in
the lookup order list,
=gerry=
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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:53
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Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] hostname
substitued in trace for ip withoutusingDNS
Try adding entries to this file
--> C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Hi,
I sent out the message below and only
got one response but it didn't tell me how I could get ethereal to us a
local hosts file under windows (XP in particular) instead of doing a DNS
lookup to use hostnames for ip addresses while monitoring or playing back a
trace. I want to use specific names (no necessarily the network DNS
names for hosts I am watching) and can do it with several other products but
would prefer to do it with etheral. Does anyone know how?
Thanks,
=gerry=
PS Here is my original message:
How do I set up a hostname file and how do I
use it to get the hostname to appear in the trace? I do not want to
use DNS resolution because our hosts have very long cryptic names and for
analysis this just gets in the way. I would like to use a hosts file
on my machine and have ethereal substitute those names for the ip address
but could not find anything in the docs which suggested this could be done
and as to where to put the "hosts" file for ethereal to find and how to tell
it to look locally. Is this possible? Thanks,
=gerry=
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