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Resolution of Network address

asked 2018-02-15 05:15:48 +0000

Vindra gravatar image

I have a captured file. When I enable "Resolve Network Addresses" I can see the names in the "Source" and "Destination" field. When I disable the option the IP addresses are seen. This is expected. However, my question is how does it resolve the IP addresses ? In command window when I do "nslookup <captured ip="">" one of them works, the other one does not return any name. The how does wireshark resolve both of those?

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answered 2018-02-15 11:05:24 +0000

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It might come from your hosts file as that's used for resolving addresses too.

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As well as using the DNS packets in the same trace. Or name resolution blocks in the pcap-ng, etc.

Jaap gravatar imageJaap ( 2018-02-16 06:47:24 +0000 )edit

Hi Anders, I have checked my /etc/hosts file. But there is no such entry. Thanks

Vindra gravatar imageVindra ( 2018-02-17 11:14:36 +0000 )edit

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