Re: Transport name resolution

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Dirk Jagdmann <doj () cubic org> wrote:

> > Should we, instead, look the port number up in the "tcp.port" or "udp.port" (or "sctp.port") dissector table and, if 
> > it finds a dissector handle, look up the short name of the protocol for that dissector handle and use that?
>
> I think this is more useful, since the dissector short name is typically used as the filter prefix. It is just 
> confusing if slightly different strings are shown, because they come from some other list/database.

Actually, the dissector *filter* name is typically used as the filter prefix - for example, for DNS, there's:

        name - Domain Name Service
        short name - DNS
        filter name - dns

Are you recommending using the filter name instead of the short name?
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