Note that we do other numeric-to-name conversion that is quite quick; e.g. Ethernet address to string conversion (using /etc/ethers) which we should not turn off by default.
So here's a possibility:
1) Only DNS lookups turned off by default.
2) The '-n' option remains, to turn off any other name lookups (e.g. Ethernet lookups).
3) Add a new option ("-D"?) for enablind DNS lookups for IP addresses.
By the by, should we start moving to longer options for this? e.g. "--domain-lookup"?
-Ashok
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:58:52 -0500 (CDT), Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Tim Potter wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> We could do this with ADNS (http://www.gnu.org/software/adns/), but that
> would add to the list of libraries we already use/require.
>
> I vote for turning off DNS resolution by default until more responsive
> lookups are implemented. I get a lot of "Ethereal is slow" comments from
> people as well.
>
>
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