Re: Why is hosts file not being used?
From: ticanaer (ticanaer.1cb6c1_at_mail.mcse.ms)
Date: 09/09/04
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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 01:23:57 -0500
Ran into the same problem as you did this morning. Tried a whole lot of
stuff and saw this posting while I was looking for answers. After 3
hours I discovered that the PC with the problem was a dual-boot PC with
win 2k3 and win xp and I had been changing the win xp hosts file.
DOH!!!
Rick Mortensen wrote:
> *Thanks Ace,
>
> ipconfig /displaydns shows everything in the cache; after
> clearing it (ipconfig /flushdns) it comes up empty.
>
> Yes I have been testing the hosts file with ping; read
> several MS articles regarding a <CR> after the last entry
> so I even made sure that was in there. I replaced the
> hosts file with a known working copy from another machine
> incase there was some corruption not showing up in notepad.
>
> After not really getting the direction I had hoped from
> here (this appears to be really deep) I engaged MS Support
> and while it is slow it appears they at least are looking
> in the right direction. I am starting to suspect one of
> the files associated with winsock was either replaced or
> corrupted somehow. Everything I check against another
> WIN2K PC in the registry appears to be correct...
>
> Feel free to keep posting your thoughts though; you might
> beat them to it and while it isn't a race I would like to
> get this machine back to health without reloading
> Windows...
>
> Thanks
>
> Rick
>
> ;>
> >When you run an ipconfig /displaydns, what do you see?
> >
> >Then run an ipconfig /flushdns, then run a /displaydns
> again. What you
> >*should* see is two entries for localhost, and whatever
> entries you may have
> >entered in the hosts file.
> >
> >Curious, how did you determine that its not using the
> hosts file? How are
> >you testing it? Pinging? Web address?
> >
> >--
> >Regards,
> >Ace
> > * :what
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