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

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 3, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Richard Urwin wrote:

> Try disabling "Concurrent DNS" in the preferences first. It probably
> doesn't use the hosts file.

Correct - with "Concurrent DNS" enabled, ethereal uses GNU ADNS instead 
of "gethostbyaddr()", so it uses only DNS, not all the name resolution 
mechanisms your OS's "gethostbyaddr()" uses.