Burton,
 
It's also interesting to note that another NTOP that is in a different location 
closer to our core resolves the addresses fine.  The one that works perfectly 
is only using one NIC.  The only real difference between these two machines is 
that the one not working is using a secondary NIC to monitor the traffic.  I 
don't know if this makes any difference whatsoever.  Will the system that is 
currently running with two nics send dns queries out on the TCPIP enabled NIC?? 
Could it be trying to communicate via the NIC with just the port monitoring 
enabled?
 
Brian

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Burton Strauss
Sent: Fri 6/24/2005 1:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Ntop] NTOP latest Win32 Snapshot - DNS question


Nope ... With debug the flags are shown for the non-terminal resolution states. 
 But [NetBIOS] flag is shown regardless of debug (code below)
 
It's almost as if the address resolution thread has stopped, so all you are 
seeing is the cached and sniffed values.
 
You would have to run from a command prompt (ntop /c -xxxxx) not the service to 
see the log, and look for THREADMGMT: entries for 'DNS address resolution'.
 
But that's an area of code I'm re-writing for 3.2 and so I won't be doing much 
in there re 3.1
 
-----Burton
 
 
 
    if(el->hostResolvedNameType == FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_NETBIOS) {
        strncat(noteBuf, " [NetBIOS]", (sizeof(noteBuf) - strlen(noteBuf) - 1));
    }
...
      switch (el->hostResolvedNameType) {
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_FCID:
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_FC_WWN:
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_FC_ALIAS:
          strncat(noteBuf, " [FibreChannel]", (sizeof(noteBuf) - 
strlen(noteBuf) - 1));
          break;
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_MAC:
          strncat(noteBuf, " [MAC]", (sizeof(noteBuf) - strlen(noteBuf) - 1));
          break;
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_IPX:
          strncat(noteBuf, " [IPX]", (sizeof(noteBuf) - strlen(noteBuf) - 1));
          break;
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_IP:
          strncat(noteBuf, " [IP]", (sizeof(noteBuf) - strlen(noteBuf) - 1));
          break;
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_ATALK:
          strncat(noteBuf, " [Appletalk]", (sizeof(noteBuf) - strlen(noteBuf) - 
1));
          break;
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_NETBIOS:
          /* Do nothing - handled in open code above */
          break;
        case FLAG_HOST_SYM_ADDR_TYPE_NAME:
          break;
      }
 
 
 


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ROBERSON, Brian
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Ntop] NTOP latest Win32 Snapshot - DNS question


Burton,
 
The IP's that should resolve and don't do show an [IP] flag.  The ones that do 
resolve have no flag and are correctly named (netbios name shown?)
 
Brian

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Burton Strauss
Sent: Fri 6/24/2005 12:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Ntop] NTOP latest Win32 Snapshot - DNS question


Check - on the ntop host - that these names are really resolvable via nslookup. 
 But first read the docs/FAQ stuff and the back traffic on DNS sniffing.
 
 
You can turn on the debug flag and - in the host name windows - will be able to 
see the flags for the resolution state.  That will tell you how far ntop has 
been able to take name res, e.g.:
 
216.148.226.29 [IP] 
<http://tigger.burtonstrauss.local:13000/216.148.226.29.html>  
                         ^^^ says that this is a numeric IP address
 
Unless it's reached a terminal state, there should be a flag in []s.
 
 
-----Burton

 
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ROBERSON, Brian
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Ntop] NTOP latest Win32 Snapshot - DNS question


I'm noticing that NTOP is not resolving a lot of our internal addresses.  This 
isn't a big problem but mildly irritating having to resolve the address 
manually.  Is there a way to check the configuration to enhance discovery of 
DNS names?  Our environment is Windows 2003 Active Directory.
 
Brian

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