Andrey, This is a question I will need to ask the engineers. I'll create a support ticket and get back to you with the answer.
-- Janice -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrey Gordon Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:56 AM To: InterMapper Discussion Cc: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] InterMapper Flows So do those results get cached or if I close my flows window and reopen it, it will forget all the names and start resolving again? ---------------------------- Sent from my iPhone On Sep 12, 2008, at 10:39 AM, "William W. Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Andrey Gordon wrote: >> So, I'm confused, now? How does the Flows know what name to put >> instead of >> IP? Does it use the PTR record in the DNS? > > IM Flows consists of two pieces, a server and a client. The server > code installs and runs on the InterMapper Server and collects > netflow packets. The server piece doesn't bother with names at all. > > The client code is a plugin that runs within the InterMapper GUI on > the client computer. The client code runs a query against the flows > server and displays the results. The results do not include any > names, so the client resolves these using DNS PTR records. > > The client uses the system-provided API's to resolve PTR records in > DNS. On Windows, the DNS api's will substitute the WINS host name if > you query the name of your own host. > > I hope this helps. > > Bill Fisher > Dartware, LLC > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
