Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Turning off DNS lookup ?

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From: "Francisco Alcoba (TS/EEM)" <francisco.alcoba@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:49:58 +0200
> I am using Ethereal version: Version 0.10.5a on Windows XP.
> 
> I would like to turn off DNS lookup because it clutters the 
> log with UDP and
> DNS messages etc.
> 
> I tried turning off these options:
> 
> Enable mac name resolution
> 
> Enable network name resolution
> 
> Enable transport name resolution
> 
> But even when these are off... ethereal still does DNS lookup ?!


Hi,

Try turning off "Enable concurrent DNS name resolution". Right now you cannot do that on the "Capture Options" window; you need to go to "Edit", "Preferences", "Name resolution", turn it off, apply -and save if you want it to be there the next time you start Ethereal- and start capturing. I think both this and "Enable network name resolution" need to be turned off for Ethereal not to send DNS queries.

Regards,
  Francisco