Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request for Change

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:57:35 +1000
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:44:56PM -0400, packet steve wrote:

> One additional reason to turn resolving off by default:  There is 
> occasional salting of networks with fake traffic.  DNS lookups for these 
> fake IP addresses may trigger a "someones going be in trouble because 
> they're sniffing packets without permission" response.

Surely that's a reason for leaving it turned on!  (-:

I agree that it's a hassle waiting for name resolution.  I always have
it turned off.

A technical solution would be to implement some sort of asynchronous DNS
lookups so you can start browsing the capture, but names would occur in
the gtk/windows idle loop.


Tim.