Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] About the ip address -host name conversion module in wiresha

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:20:08 -0400
Check out gethostbyname() (or getaddrinfo()) and friends.

nangergong wrote:
Thanks! I'm wondering whether there are some public APIs for this function

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Martin Visser <martinvisser99@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:martinvisser99@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    In Wireshark,  it uses DNS or what ever you manually have written in
    the "ethers" or "hosts" file. Whois only shows assignments from the
    various Internet Registries.

    You can of course infer names (say looking at the "Host:" header in
    a HTTP request) but this isn't done.

    Unfortunately their is no magic to do this.

    Regards, Martin

    MartinVisser99@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:MartinVisser99@xxxxxxxxx>


    On 23 May 2012 20:00, nangergong <nangergong@xxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:nangergong@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

        HI, all:

             I noticed that wireshark can show the host name(or website
        url) for an ip address precisely. I need such a function which
        can convert an IP address to the host name precisely. With linux
        command "whois", the result is very coarse. Can anyone tell how
        wireshark did the conversion and can I write some scripts or a
        small program to do this? I mean the input is an IP address
        while the output is a host name or URL, Thanks!

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