Why isn't Win2k using my host file?

[Escalade]

What do I have to do to get it to use the local host file?

 

[Budman]

are you using the " hosts " file from c:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc ?

 

[Escalade]

Yea. That's the only host file path that I know of.

I just don't understand what setting(s) control if this files gets accessed or not... whatever those settings are somehow they got changed because IE now ignores my local host file alltogether!

 

[bigshooter]

Assuming you typed everything in right, IE doesn't have anything to do with whether the entries in your hosts file are used or not. Go to a command prompt and ping whatever you added in there. If it comes out with the right IP address when you ping, then something else is wrong. I only use mine so that when I get subscriber.anandtech.com links, it will send me to the corresponding forums.anandtech.com link.

 

[Saltin]

Do an ipconfig /all and let me know what WINS node type your box is using. I reckon it isnt using -h (hybrid) which is the default. DHCP usually dictates what the node type is in 2k.

It has nothing to do with the /path your LMHOST or HOST file is in. It has everything to do with the WINS node type your box is using.