For what it's worth, I have had a half dozen Engineers who have each on
separate occasions came to me and to tell me that Ethereal sucks because
it hangs when they stop the capture. They don't know why, and when I
tell them, they usually fix the problem and move on.
Nonetheless, the cause of the hanging isn't apparent to most people (the
first time I had the problem, I didn't figure it out until I looked at
the source code).
Those who want the functionality can turn it on easily. Those who are
clueless (end users) won't get the impression that Ethereal is a crappy
product because their DNS resolution isn't setup properly.
Just my two cents.
-Devin
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 11:00, Greg Morris wrote:
> All,
>
> Does anyone have an opinion on this?
>
> When installing Ethereal the default name resolve parameters are on.
> This is fine for individuals who are tracing and analyzing their own
> network. But when moving from site to site or when analyzing traces from
> other locations then if you forget to turn off the resolve name options
> then the trace takes forever to load as Ethereal attempts to resolve
> each network/node address.
>
> I would propose that we turn the name resolve off by default.
>
>
>
> Greg Morris
> gmorris@xxxxxxxxxx
> Novell Technical Support (WSS/GRT Client)
> Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software
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Devin Heitmueller
Senior Software Engineer
Netilla Networks Inc
