another idea would be
some kind of dns cache.
I liked that about ntop.
--- ethereal-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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.
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