Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Name resolution not working

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:10:01 -0500 (CDT)
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Martin Regner wrote:

> 
> Bruno Eurich wrote:
> 
> <I upgraded to 9.13a recently and name resolution (Edit > Preferences)
> <doesn't seem to be working right.
> 
> <Coud this be a side-effect of the new ADNS code?
> 
> 
> Yes it is a side-effect of using ADNS, but it seems that Gerald Combs will add a configuration preference in the next version of Ethereal.

This side effect should only affect the packet list - host names should
show up properly in the tree view once ADNS resolves them.  They aren't
displayed properly in the packet list because we don't (yet) have a way to
go back and update packet list entries once a host name has been resolved.
As Bruno and others have noticed, this can have wierd side effects,
such as host names suddenly appearing midway through a live capture.

My changes will allow you to enable/disable ADNS as well as adjust the
number of concurrent DNS queries.  A better fix would be to propogate
resolved host names back to the packet list.