The traceroute command was asked to display names (or it wasn't asked not to display them with "-n") so for every hop, before sending the probe it tries to resolve the name.
If you call it with a "-n" option it wont. If you try it twice in fast sequence (without "-n") you'll notice that the second time it won't do these requests (they were cached). L On 6/3/07, Tim Milgram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anybody explain why there is a DNS request after every hop in a captured traceroute? I would really appreciate it. _________________________________________________________________ Like puzzles? Play free games & earn great prizes. Play Clink now. http://club.live.com/clink.aspx?icid=clink_hotmailtextlink2 _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
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