Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] cache DNS lookups

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From: Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:19:31 -0800
When opening a big tcpdump file, if i tell Ethereal to resolve IP
addresses to host names, sometimes it takes a very long time. It looks
like Ethereal performs repeated DNS lookups on the same address.

Is there a way to cache the results internally, so that a lookup is not
repeated over and over?

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/