L.C. - Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:05 am Post subject:
Interesting...and what is this useful for? Maverick - Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:04 am Post subject:
I guess for your DNS server fails or is unreachable, you can still view some websites this way.
CypherJF - Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:
hosts file override DNS names to point to a specific address... When provided by a 3rd party - use with care - you won't know if the IP address specified is legit or not.
I use the hosts file to identify and block ad-host sites by re-routing the DNS as 127.0.0.1. Works well.
JoWie - Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject:
CypherJF wrote:
I use the hosts file to identify and block ad-host sites by re-routing the DNS as 127.0.0.1. Works well.
0.0.0.0 works to, especially if you run a webserver
