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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Transport name resolution considered harmful?

From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:41:48 +0200
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:24:02AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> Note that we have dissectors for all of those (and that the names aren't the protocol names, e.g. "domain" rather than "DNS", "microsoft-ds" rather than "SMB", "router" rather than "RIP").  
> The issues are probably mostly with the protocols not used enough to have Wireshark dissectors.
> 
> Perhaps we should, instead, have our own table of port numbers->protocol names.

A little off-topic:
  We could implement it as value_string and finally fix bug #594 o/