On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:58:57PM -0500, Sam Roberts wrote:
> A quick look through the tcpdump code base makes it look like both 53
> and 5353 are recognized as DNS ports, but when I dump the traffic on my
> network, I don't see the pretty-printing of the contents of mDNS packets
> as I do DNS packets.
> 
> Any suggestions as to why?

Because tcpdump 3.7.2 doesn't decode 5353 as DNS.

> Can I get this to work like I want?

Yes, by:

> I am using tcpdump 3.7.2 on OS X, built from a .tgz I just downloaded.

downloading a different tarball:

        http://www.tcpdump.org/#current

Get the "tcpdump-current.tar.gz" tarball and build that.

(Or try upgrading to Panther - it has a tcpdump based on a post-3.7 CVS
snapshot, and might decode 5353 as DNS.)
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