support for name resolution broken in ethereal?
Ernest L. Williams Jr.
ernesto at ornl.gov
Sun Jun 20 14:55:11 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 10:28, Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 09:30, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I use ethereal and choose the following for capture ethereal hangs:
> >
> > 1. Update list of packets in real time
> > 2. Enable network name resolution.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this one?
> >
> > If I don't select number 2 above, all is well.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>
>
> I haven't personally seen this, but I wonder if IPv6 has anything to do
> with it. As root run:
>
> echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> Reboot and IPv6 is disabled.
Is there a bootline parameter instead?
> May or may not help, but name resolution
> in Mozilla is all jacked up with v6 enabled. Perhaps the same is true of
> ethereal.
By the way tcpdump, works just fine with name resolution.
>
> Wayne Steenburg
--
Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>
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