Hi,
I just found the answer to a problem I often had with windows:
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Q-10: Why WinDump hangs for some seconds while capturing? How can I avoid it?
A: The cause of the slowness is that is that gethostbyaddr(), used by Windump to resolve the host names, on Windows actually uses more than just DNS and hosts files to translate IP addresses to names: it also tries using NetBIOS-over-TCP to do the translation. The translation of an IP address to a NetBIOS name requires to send a NetBIOS Name Service Node Status Request (see section 4.2.17 of RFC 1002) to the IP address, and wait for a reply: the reply will have the machine's NetBIOS name. However, if the machine in question isn't running any NetBIOS name service code (most non-Windows boxes don't), no reply will come back. An ICMP Port Unreachable might get sent out, but that might not cause an error to get delivered to the socket on which the request was sent. Therefore, the machine trying to get the name might have to wait for the request to time out before concluding that it can't get the name for that IP address using NetBIOS. That could take a significant amount of time.
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I still hope Reactos will fix all those annoying bugs of Windows.
Please allow me to ask if you really did/will fix this problem.
Your answer will significantly increase or decrease my interest in the reactos project. :-) Because it throws a light on your opinion about dealing with problems like this.
Currently I hope reactos will be a nice and small replacement for all fat and intransparent MS stuff. (ie remove everything except basic OS)
btw, did anybody read the Bill Gates interview in the Spiegel? Every sentence was a lie. He is my most hated person after Bush
byebye and continue good work. World is waiting for ya.
Jan
Jan Tisje wrote:
Hi,
Currently I hope reactos will be a nice and small replacement for all fat and intransparent MS stuff. (ie remove everything except basic OS)
Gates once said that NT is a better Unix than Unix. (A lie.) Now, it's turning out that ReactOS will be all that Windows *should* have been. (The truth.)
btw, did anybody read the Bill Gates interview in the Spiegel? Every sentence was a lie. He is my most hated person after Bush
If he cannot convince himself of the lies, he does not have much hope of fooling others. In other words, he has already deluded himself.
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Now, it's turning out that ReactOS will be all that Windows *should* have been. (The truth.)
If we actually attempted to archive that goal we couldn't ever preserve compatibility to win32 applications and propably also not to drivers...
Regards, Thomas
btw, did anybody read the Bill Gates interview in the Spiegel? Every sentence was a lie. He is my most hated person after Bush
Whatever happened to hate the sin, not the sinner? ;-)
regards, Jakob