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Network Analysis using Wireshark 2 Cookbook

You're reading from   Network Analysis using Wireshark 2 Cookbook Practical recipes to analyze and secure your network using Wireshark 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
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ISBN-13 9781786461674
Length 626 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nagendra Kumar Nainar Nagendra Kumar Nainar
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Nagendra Kumar Nainar
Yoram Orzach Yoram Orzach
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Yoram Orzach
Yogesh Ramdoss Yogesh Ramdoss
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Wireshark Version 2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Mastering Wireshark for Network Troubleshooting 3. Using Capture Filters 4. Using Display Filters 5. Using Basic Statistics Tools 6. Using Advanced Statistics Tools 7. Using the Expert System 8. Ethernet and LAN Switching 9. Wireless LAN 10. Network Layer Protocols and Operations 11. Transport Layer Protocol Analysis 12. FTP, HTTP/1, and HTTP/2 13. DNS Protocol Analysis 14. Analyzing Mail Protocols 15. NetBIOS and SMB Protocol Analysis 16. Analyzing Enterprise Applications' Behavior 17. Troubleshooting SIP, Multimedia, and IP Telephony 18. Troubleshooting Bandwidth and Delay Issues 19. Security and Network Forensics

Analyzing regular DNS operations

In this recipe, we will see how to find out if DNS is working properly or not. We will see some scenarios of DNS operations, and what can go wrong.

Getting ready

Open Wireshark and start capturing data. You should mirror a device that is using DNS, or the DNS server itself.

How to do it...

Connect Wireshark to the LAN switch attached to the monitored device, and configure a port mirror to the device from which you suspect the problem is coming. Go through the following steps:

  1. In case of user complaints, configure the port mirror for monitoring...
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