Re: W2K doesn't do lookup in hosts
- From: Kurt <kurtl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:59:42 -0800
Puzzled wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:38:41 -0800,Huh, how 'bout that. I did the same and you're right. I'm sure I remember there being a second copy, maybe from the W2K days, but I don't have a system around to check. I suspect that's the one then. It should work. I've used that trick to resolve names on routed private networks where the local DNS server doesn't have records for hosts on the other.
Kurt <kurtl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Puzzled wrote:I'm trying to get my w2k box to do name lookups in hosts so thatThere are two copies of the HOSTS file and I can never remember which one it the actual one being used. Do a search for hosts and make sure both files have the same records, then try again.
i can call ping without supplying an ip address. Right now i can
'ping 192.168.0.10' and it works, but with 'ping server', it only
shrugs and complains. (Eventually i'll install a central dns
service, but i'd like to get the local-hosts-file method working
first)
TIA for any insights.
A search fails to turn up another one. There's an LMHOSTS file,
which has the same records, but not another HOSTS file - only the
one in winnt/system32/drivers/etc. That's true of both my w2k
boxes.
Kurt
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