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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7380] Only use Hosts file or Address Resolution block for

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 07:37:50 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7380

Michael Mann <mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Michael Mann <mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-07-02 07:37:48 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> +1.  And in fact I started working on it, but then I got discouraged by the
> (many) UIs where you can enable/disable name resolution--all of which had to be
> updated.
> My thought was to separate "use external name resolvers" from "do name
> resolution."  The code changes (epan/addr_resolv.c) were actually pretty
> simple, but the UI stuff looked to be ugly and/or painful (especially since
> technically the former option should be dependent on the latter; I wasn't even
> sure how to present the new "don't do external name resolution" option).
> I'll see if I can find the code I had...

I became familiar with the "(many) UIs" with my work on bug 7402, so if you can
find the code, I may be able to help integrate it since its fresh in my mind.

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