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

["Gerald Wolfson" <gwolfson@xxxxxxx>]

I tried putting the ip and names in my hosts file under windows xp and
ethereal does not appear to be looking there.  Maybe I need to change the
lookup order but I would think since I do not have a local DNS it would
check the file after failing but maybe it is going out the the internet on
DNS requests and never looking at the local hosts file,
=gerry=
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olaf van der Spek" <OvdSpek@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Ethereal user support" <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] hostname substitued in trace for ip
withoutusingDNS


> Can't you use your normal system hosts file for that and enable normal DNS
> lookup? The OS should then use that file instead.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Wolfson" <gwolfson@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:36 PM
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] hostname substitued in trace for ip without
> usingDNS
>
>
> How do I set up a hostname file and how do I use it to get the hostname to
> appear in the trace?  I do not want to use DNS resolution because our
hosts
> have very long cryptic names and for analysis this just gets in the way.
I
> would like to use a hosts file on my machine and have ethereal substitute
> those names for the ip address but could not find anything in the docs
which
> suggested this could be done and as to where to put the "hosts" file for
> ethereal to find and how to tell it to look locally.  Is this possible?
> Thanks,
> =gerry=
>
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