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Tagged with hosts-file windows-server-2008
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Are there certain specific host file entries that Windows 2008 will ignore for security purposes?
While troubleshooting a network timeout/connectivity WinHTTP issue, I temporarily added a host file entry for:
127.0.0.1 ctldl.windowsupdate.com
(The server has no internet connection and the ...
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DNS resolves without adding the host IP and name to etc/ hosts file
Is there any way to resolve hostnames without added to hosts file?
In order to access internal site in my company I have to add the host-name and IP in the .../etc/hosts file. Is there any way to add ...
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Accessing multiple sites from test environment using hosts file [closed]
I've got a Windows Server test environment installed as a VM on another company server (e.g. 192.168.2.30) which currently hosts about five different test sites. My local machine contains a line in ...
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Windows Server 2008 Administrator can't take Ownership of file
I'm trying to edit the hosts file on Windows Server 2008.
I right clicked on Notepad and Ran as Administrator, then opened the hosts file, but when I try to save it I get the following error message:
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Make My PC think another PC on the network doesn't exist
I'm in the process of migrating a database server, both the new and the old server are on the same network.
Now I want to test the application that uses this database server on my machine which is ...
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Forward Incoming Traffic with Windows hosts file?
A long time ago I found some guide that showed how to use the Windows Hosts file to forward incoming traffic to another local IP/Port. We setup a clients server on one IP/Port, and they wanted it ...
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