Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Seaching in the data pane would be useful ...

From: Christopher Maynard <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 15:52:24 +0000 (UTC)
Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@...> writes:

> I can across a capture yesterday where there were DNS queries for a
> KDC in a Windows AD environment. The query returned 230 KDCs!
> 
> Searching for a particular one was hard.
> 
> It would be nice to have a right click menu item in either the details
> pane or the data pane where you can search for a particular string (or
> chars or hex equivalent) and have the string highlighted in the data
> pane and the detail pane sync'd to that.
> 

Isn't there a filter you can use, such as: dns.qry.name == "The KDC name"?

Alternatively, it seems you're referring to the Edit -> Find Packet (Ctrl+F)
functionality, combined with Edit -> Find Next (Ctrl+N) and/or Edit -> Find
Previous (Ctrl+B).  Is there something that feature doesn't provide that
you're looking for?

- Chris