Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Transport name resolution
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:33:29 -0700
On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Dirk Jagdmann <doj@xxxxxxxxx> 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?