Wireshark's Sectools rating
Sectools.org, maintained by the Nmap Project, has been cataloguing the network security community’s favourite tools for more than a decade. It ranks Wireshark as the No 1 among network security tools and describes it as follows: “Wireshark (known as Ethereal until a trademark dispute in Summer 2006) is a fantastic open source multi-platform network protocol analyser. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, delving down into just the level of packet detail you need. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. It also supports hundreds of protocols and media types.”
The command line request to ‘PING’ omegasystems. co.in triggered a 78-byte UDP DNS query from the computer system 192.168.1.2 (IP address in your capture will be the same as the TCP/IP configuration of your capture system) towards DNS server 208.67.222.222. A 94-byte reply was received with the IP address of omegasystems.co.in as 23.91.123.124.
A 74-byte ICMP Echo Request is now sent to the resolved IP address of omegasystems.co.in, for which a 74-byte ICMP Echo reply is received.
Please view the Time column, and you will notice that approximately 0.3 seconds were required to receive replies for both these queries.