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

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

Check out gethostbyname() (or getaddrinfo()) and friends.

nangergong wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:MartinVisser99 () gmail com>
>
>
>     On 23 May 2012 20:00, nangergong <nangergong () gmail com
>     <mailto: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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