Re: Seaching in the data pane would be useful ...

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Christopher Maynard
<Christopher.Maynard () gtech com> wrote:
> Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@...> writes:
>
> > I can across a capture yesterday where there were DNS queries for a
> > KDC in a Windows AD environment. The query returned 230 KDCs!
> >
> > Searching for a particular one was hard.
> >
> > It would be nice to have a right click menu item in either the details
> > pane or the data pane where you can search for a particular string (or
> > chars or hex equivalent) and have the string highlighted in the data
> > pane and the detail pane sync'd to that.
>
> Isn't there a filter you can use, such as: dns.qry.name == "The KDC name"?
>
> Alternatively, it seems you're referring to the Edit -> Find Packet (Ctrl+F)
> functionality, combined with Edit -> Find Next (Ctrl+N) and/or Edit -> Find
> Previous (Ctrl+B).  Is there something that feature doesn't provide that
> you're looking for?

Sure, I can do the search, and I did, but the actual info I am
interested in, like the priority, etc, is buried among 230 entries and
I have to patiently scroll until I find it.

That is hard to do.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)
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