Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] hostname substitued in trace for ip withoutusingDNS

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 22:44:50 +0000
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 3:05 am, Gerald Wolfson wrote:
> 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=

Try disabling "Concurrent DNS" in the preferences first. It probably 
doesn't use the hosts file.

-- 
Richard Urwin