Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Name Resolution

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:59:39 -0700
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 01:56:22AM +0000, Mimic Fox wrote:
> I wonder that Ethereal prevents netbios name service queries.

Ethereal doesn't prevent NetBIOS name service queries when doing
address-to-name resolution, which is one reason why address-to-name
resolution can be even more painfully slow on Windows than it is on
UNIX.