Re: [Ethereal-users] hostname substitued in trace for ip withoutusingDNS

["Gerald Wolfson" <gwolfson@xxxxxxx>]

I did that an it did not work but I found an article that describes how to get the DNS lookup to go to your hosts file first by puting 127.0.0.1 at the head of the DNS lookup order list.  I will try this next but I would prefer that there was some way to make it look there and only there.  I guess I can do that by not having any other DNS entries in the lookup order list,

=gerry=

----- Original Message -----

From: Palmer Thomas J Civ HQ SSG/ENEM

To: Ethereal user support

Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:53 AM

Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] hostname substitued in trace for ip withoutusingDNS

Try adding  entries to this file -->  C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gerald Wolfson
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:42 AM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] hostname substitued in trace for ip without usingDNS
Importance: High

Hi,

  I sent out the message below and only got one response but it didn't tell me how I could get ethereal to us a local hosts file under windows (XP in particular) instead of doing a DNS lookup to use hostnames for ip addresses while monitoring or playing back a trace.  I want to use specific names (no necessarily the network DNS names for hosts I am watching) and can do it with several other products but would prefer to do it with etheral. Does anyone know how?

Thanks,

=gerry=

 

PS Here is my original message:

 

How do I set up a hostname file and how do I use it to get the hostname to appear in the trace?  I do not want to use DNS resolution because our hosts have very long cryptic names and for analysis this just gets in the way.  I would like to use a hosts file on my machine and have ethereal substitute those names for the ip address but could not find anything in the docs which suggested this could be done and as to where to put the "hosts" file for ethereal to find and how to tell it to look locally.  Is this possible? Thanks,

=gerry=

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