Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Local dns support for NSIP

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:52:36 -0800 (PST)
Ulf Lamping said:

> Do I understand it the right way:
>
> Ethereal will read in the hosts file at program start if it is located
> at the places mentioned above and will add the entries to it's internal
> address resolution table(s).

Yes.

> The format is like the usual hosts file used on unix systems, an example
> might look like this:
>
> # Comments must be prepended by the # sign!
> 192.168.0.1 homeserver

Yes.  Note that both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are supported.

> Will this only be valid for NSIP as mentioned in the subject line?

No.  It's valid for all IPv{4,6} <-> name resolutions in Ethereal.