Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal is hanging [etherXXXX]

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:21:46 -0800
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:19:26PM -0600, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> You probably have some packet time on the LAN which triggers a bug in one
> of the dissectors.

...unless it's just a dead DNS server; if the hang is forever, it's
probably a bug, but if it hangs for many seconds (DNS_TIMEOUT is 2, but,
for some reason, it seems to take a lot longer than 2 seconds to give up
on a host name lookup) and then continues, it's probably a dead DNS
server.