Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] [Patch] Name resolution from "hosts" file

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From: "Francisco Alcoba (TS/EEM)" <francisco.alcoba@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:57:38 +0100
> I've checked in a variant that uses code borrowed from the 
> "epan/addr_resolv.c" code to read the ethers file.  It also "handles" 
> IPv6 addresses in the hosts file by ignoring them.
> 

I've seen you add aliases to the hash table too. Is there any place where the table 
is used for name to address resolution? That would be interesting for another issue
I'm still trying to figure out.