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Mastering Wireshark

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Mastering Wireshark

Overview of this book

Wireshark is a popular and powerful tool used to analyze the amount of bits and bytes that are flowing through a network. Wireshark deals with the second to seventh layer of network protocols, and the analysis made is presented in a human readable form. Mastering Wireshark will help you raise your knowledge to an expert level. At the start of the book, you will be taught how to install Wireshark, and will be introduced to its interface so you understand all its functionalities. Moving forward, you will discover different ways to create and use capture and display filters. Halfway through the book, you’ll be mastering the features of Wireshark, analyzing different layers of the network protocol, looking for any anomalies. As you reach to the end of the book, you will be taught how to use Wireshark for network security analysis and configure it for troubleshooting purposes.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Wireshark
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Domain name system


Imagine a world of Internet where you have to type a random numerical value (IP address), instead of a name, to visit a website. Also, assume that each numerical figure is different. Considering this, how many IP addresses can you memorize? 5? 10? Perhaps, 50 at max? So, now, you are confined to visiting just 50 websites. This doesn't really sound feasible.

Suppose instead of just memorizing the IP addresses, you note down each of them, followed by the name that you want to give to the website to figure out which website is for what purpose. Now, you can create an Excel file for yourself, consisting of the IP addresses written next to the name of the website you gave. This way, probably, you can collect more than a thousand website addresses for later use.

For the sake of your unlimited web experience, DNS comes to your rescue, and it does exactly what you did in the preceding example. DNS creates a database of websites with their IP addresses, along with the name of the...