Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] name resoulition option

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:00:55 -0700
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:27:51PM -0700, Erick B. wrote:
> LOL. Ok, so lets put it under the IP tab and call it
> Enable DNS Lookups

Well, I'd say "address lookups" or "name lookups" instead; there's no
guarantee that the name will be looked up only via DNS (and, in theory
at least, it might not be looked up via DNS at all...).

It also controls name resolution network-layer protocols other than IP,
e.g. IPX (and it controls it for both IPv4 and IPv6).

> On a seperate note, if I download the win32 source
> code and get the GNU compilers can I compile my own
> without needing a commercial compiler?

So far, I don't think anybody's ever compiled Ethereal with GCC on
Windows, so if you want to do that, you may be the trailblazer (with all
that implies...).

> > Joerg Meyer sent in a patch a while ago (which I'll
> > look at soon) which,
> > as I remember, splits that into multiple options, so
> > perhaps there we'd
> > have separate ones with separate tabs (although I
> > think he had one
> > option to control all transport-layer resolution,
> > for example, rather
> > than separate flags for TCP and UDP).
> 
> Not familiar with this. 

I've just checked it in.