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

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:01:30 +1000
From: "Mark H. Wood"
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request for Change


> Maybe what this really indicates is a documentation bug.  The current
> behavior *is* somewhat mysterious when it strikes.  How about a prominent
> notice in the documentation:
>
> By default, Ethereal will attempt to look up names for captured
> IP addresses.  If you have no DNS server, or if your capture
> includes packets from hosts whose names are not maintained
> locally, you may experience unreasonable delays before the
> captured data are displayed.  You may change this behavior by
> deselecting "Enable network name resolution" under "Name
> resolution" in the preferences editor (Edit | Preferences) or
> by altering the value of 'name_resolve' in your Ethereal
> preferences file.  (See FILES in the Ethereal man page for the
> location of the preferences.)
>

I think perhaps the best solution is to disable name resolution by default.
This makes ethereal fast for all causal users that dont want to/need to read
the documentation to use it.
People that want nameresolution can just enable it.

I may be biased since I never look at captures I make myself so I must
always disable it anyway.