Re: About the ip address -host name conversion module in wireshark

[nangergong <nangergong () gmail com>]

Thanks! I'm wondering whether there are some public APIs for this function

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Martin Visser <martinvisser99 () gmail com>wrote:

> In Wireshark,  it uses DNS or what ever you manually have written in the
> "ethers" or "hosts" file. Whois only shows assignments from the various
> Internet Registries.
>
> You can of course infer names (say looking at the "Host:" header in a HTTP
> request) but this isn't done.
>
> Unfortunately their is no magic to do this.
>
> Regards, Martin
>
> MartinVisser99 () gmail com
>
>
> On 23 May 2012 20:00, nangergong <nangergong () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > HI, all:
> >
> >      I noticed that wireshark can show the host name(or website url) for
> > an ip address precisely. I need such a function which can convert an IP
> > address to the host name precisely. With linux command "whois", the result
> > is very coarse. Can anyone tell how wireshark did the conversion and can I
> > write some scripts or a small program to do this? I mean the input is an IP
> > address while the output is a host name or URL, Thanks!
> >
> >
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