Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Does it also make coffee?

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:32:34PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > It comes up with the correct host names, without me having to do
> > anything.  (Must be looking at NetBIOS, as well as DNS).
> 
> Ethereal doesn't itself look at either of them - it just calls the
> "gethostbyaddr()" routine on the OS on which it's running.  
[snip]

Thanks.  That's quite interesting.  Is that true even on Windows?  What
library provides that routine there?

Hope I didn't bother anyone on the list with my intemperate outburst of
yesterday.  Sometimes you just have to shout about a great thing when
you see it.