Re: Computer will not find DNS automatically...

The "Hosts" file in Windows and other operating systems is used to associate
host names with IP addresses. Host names are the www.yahoo.com addresses
that you see every day. IP addresses are numbers that mean the same thing as
the www words - the computers use the numbers to actually find the sites,
but we have words like www.yahoo.com so humans do not need to remember the
long strings of numbers when they want to visit a site.

For instance, the host name for Yahoo! is www.yahoo.com, while its IP
address is 204.71.200.67 Either address will take you to Yahoo!'s site, but
the www address will first have to be translated into the IP address. If you
type in the IP address directly, your computer will not have to look it up.

A series of steps are used when searching for IP addresses that go with
these host names. The first step is the hosts file on your local computer.
The Hosts file tells your computer what the name is in numbers so the
computer can go find it. If the IP address is found in your Hosts file, the
computer will stop looking and go to that site, but if it is not it will ask
a DNS computer (domain name server) for the information. Since the search
ends once a match is found.


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"DD" <tobytoby50@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>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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