Re: Wireshark hosts file location

[Jasper Bongertz <jasper () packet-foo com>]

> > On 21 Mar 2019 (Thu), at 10:16, Jasper Bongertz <jasper () packet-foo com> wrote:
> > I just saw this: https://ask.wireshark.org/question/8014/hosts-file-manager/

> > My first impulse was "put the hosts in a profile directory and switch it via profiles", but when I tested that it 
> > didn't work (no names resolved). I'm not sure if the hosts file is even read when it's in a profile directory, or 
> > where exactly Wireshark expects a hosts file. Do you know if that's supposed to work?

> Strange, in Wireshark -2.6.7 on my Mac, I do get resolved names
> from the "hosts" file in my configuration profile (after turning on
> Network layer name resolution). Which is how I expect it to work, just like you :-)

Yes, I tried it again after Chris Maynard said the same thing, and it worked. So it must have been one of those "I did 
something wrong even though I was sure I didn't" situations :-)

But the good thing is that Roland is now aware of all this for his planned rewrite of the profile handling code.

Cheers,
Jasper


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