Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] IP address resolution using /etc/hosts

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From: Lazarus Gary <Gary.Lazarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:49:40 +1000
Hi,

I have installed the Ethereal RPM from the Mandrake 10.0 distribution.
(I'm running Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop)
Ethereal works great.

I have one issue in that I can not get it to resolve the IP address in
my capture. It shows them as the native IP address. (192.168.1.90 etc,
not as Fred).

I have added entries into my etc/hosts table, which works as I can ping
using the name (ie ping fred) and it works. TCPDUMP also seems to
happily resolve the IP address from etc/hosts.

I also tried to configure the MAC address into etc/ethers. This also
did not seem to assist in the address resolving.

So my question is. How can I resolve IP address in Ethereal without
using a DNS?

Thanks,
Gary  


Gary Lazarus
Scylla Sys. Engineering
Ph: 61-2-9848-3685
e: gary.lazarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx