Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] capture question

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From: "f. Andrew Lawton" <andrew@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 24 May 2002 10:29:09 +0000
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 14:06, KCMAP wrote:
> I've just downloaded the latest version. After I
> capture some data, stop the capture, the programs says
> loading the file, but appears to hang.   It's really
> loading but it takes forever (30 minutes, at least to
> load) What am I doing wrong?
> 
> fyi...loaded under w98, nothing else running except
> ethereal.
> 
> 
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 My experience has been that this is a DNS lookup issue. The response time
to/from your DNS server may be too slow. Try running it without name
lookups and see if that works. My solution was to upgrade to a PIII on
the box running Ethereal.