Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal 0.10.3 hang in gethostbyaddr during load of packet trace

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From: "Marc Simon" <marc_simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:20:06 -0700
Ethereal seems to be hanging in gethostbyaddr when loading trace file and
enabling name resolution for IP addresses.
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(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x40f0c526 in sigsuspend () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x40e23478 in __pthread_wait_for_restart_signal ()
  from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#2  0x40e24e40 in __pthread_alt_lock () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#3  0x40e21d07 in pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#4  0x40fd55cb in gethostbyaddr () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
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ethereal 0.10.3
Compiled with GTK+ 2.2.1, with GLib 2.2.1, with libpcap 0.7.2, with libz 1.1.4, 
with libpcre 3.9, without UCD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, without ADNS.
Running with libpcap (version unknown) on Linux 2.4.21-0.28mdk.
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Running Mandrake 9.1 - updated packages
Other environment info available on request.
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Invoked ethereal, Enabled name resolution for network layer, Attempted to load 
trace file samptrace.bin. ethereal then hung at 68% completion of
loading the trace file (Status 16KB or 23KB). I am using a local caching
nameserver (named / BIND 9.2.2) /etc/resolv.conf points to 127.0.0.1.

Trace file is located at http://home.comcast.net/~marcosimon/samptrace.bin
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