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

Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7380

--- Comment #3 from Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-07-03 22:36:46 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (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.

Using common code for selecting the name resolution options in the capture
options dialouge and in the prefrerences dlg. could be a start :-)

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