Re: Computer will not find DNS automatically...

I ran "notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" (w/o quotes)and I got a dialogue box that said "Cannot find the ---------- \hosts.txt file Do you want to create a new file?". Is this a problem? What should I do?
Thanks for your answer I thought the thread was limited to me and pcbutts1!

DD

Torgeir Bakken (MVP) wrote: 
DD wrote:

I don't have a "Hosts" file where you say it should be!
Any suggestions?
(snip)


Hi,

Click Start >> Run >>
Type the follow command in the Open box.
"notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"   (w/o quotes)
Press Ok


You should only see some comments line and then this entry:

127.0.0.1       localhost


Be sure to go to the end of the file, sometimes a bad
app have added a lot of blank lines before the host entries
added to the file.



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