Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Local dns support for NSIP

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:24:27 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:

OK, so is there any reason to have the pathname of the file be a
settable parameter, or would it be sufficient to have, for example, a
file named "hosts" in the directory for personal configuration files
(i.e., the file would be ~/.ethereal/hosts on UN*X and, for example,
C:\Documents and Settings\{your login name}\Application Data\Ethereal

I've checked in a change to have Ethereal (and Tethereal) load a personal hosts file, in ~/.ethereal/hosts on UN*X and in "hosts" in the Ethereal personal configuration directory on Windows.