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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs
Sent: den 26 februari 2015 01:12
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 52115: /trunk/epan/ /trunk/epan/: addr_resolv.c
On 2/25/15 2:59 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> On 09/17/13 00:55, etxrab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=5211
>> 5
>>
>> User: etxrab
>> Date: 2013/09/16 09:55 PM
>>
>> Log:
>> Don't call gethostbyaddr() we have already read the local hosts
>> file, settle for that.
>>
>> Directory: /trunk/epan/
>> Changes Path Action
>> +0 -30 addr_resolv.c Modified
>
> Hmmm, this change means that on systems without C-ARES or GNU ADNS,
> external name resolution does not work at all (even for stuff that's
> in /etc/hosts).
>
> Any objection to reverting this?
>
> Or if we really want to kill off gethostbyaddr() we should disable
> "Use external name resolver" when we don't have an asynchronous name
> resolver (to make it obvious to the user s/he has a system where we
> don't want to do name resolutions).
>
>No objection here, although reverting should include switching to getaddrinfo. I haven't looked at it that closely but we might be to add dns.c and make asynchronous resolution always-on:
>
>http://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/dns.c.html
No objection here either - at the time - as far as I remember - I thought it was a duplication of something done earlier... Reading the hosts file twice(on windows?)?
Regards
Anders
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