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

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:52:26 -0800

On Feb 3, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Richard Urwin wrote:


Try disabling "Concurrent DNS" in the preferences first. It probably
doesn't use the hosts file.
Correct - with "Concurrent DNS" enabled, ethereal uses GNU ADNS instead of "gethostbyaddr()", so it uses only DNS, not all the name resolution mechanisms your OS's "gethostbyaddr()" uses.