host is any machine or computer connected to a network and can offer information, resources, services and applications to users or other nodes in the network.
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Fixing DNS on Ubuntu server
I've got a server that is currently running as servername, but I need it to be servername.domain.com (the IP already resolves to servername.domain.com), and I currently have:
0.0.0.0 ...
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How do OS's handle /etc/hosts algorithmically?
I have a huge /etc/hosts file with 18,000 lines. I use it to block adservers and such. My browsing performance seems to be fine, but I wonder if there's some size at which I'll start slowing myself ...
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Load local file in place of remote file (HTTP) address in Windows
I am trying to achieve something that you might typically use a hosts file for, but that isn't suitable here.
I want a Windows PC to refer to a local file (I can serve it from a web server at ...
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Unable to connect host from guest VPC
My host is WinXP and my guest (on VPC 2007) is also WinXP. Both have SP2. I am unable to ping either from one another. However, I am able to connect to the Internet from the guest. My intention is to ...
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Localhost via WAMP doesn't connect
I needed to change the default port wamp was listening to, so now I need to use another one, let's say 81. So now instead of going to http://localhost now I need to go to http://localhost:81. No ...
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Sendmail not working on ubuntu guest - unqualified host name
I have a win7 host running ubuntu guest through vbox. it is configured with a bridged network adapter and I am using DHCP to assign an ip of 192.168.0.5 which is mapped to smartstart.dev in my windows ...
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Can one make a Macbook behave like a USB-Drive
Is there a Way to emulate an usb-drive with a Macbook? I do not mean to emulate usb drives on my macbook!
I would like to plug a double usb cable to my macbook and e.g. my TV. I want the TV to think ...
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Cygwin netcat nc doesn't resolve hosts through /etc/hosts
I'm trying to use ssh to log into remote servers, and I have a ProxyCommand setup in ~/.ssh/config to use a proxy (setup through PuTTY to connect to a VPN). The ProxyCommand uses nc to connect ...
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Trying to reconcile global ip address and Vhosts
I have been using my local machine as a web server for a while, and I have several websites set up locally on my machine, all with similar Vhost files like the one seen here
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How to redirect a URL to a certain IP, as with /etc/hosts?
Someone on my shared server has messed with some setting such that gethostbyname('www.google.com') (PHP) gives me the IP for his website, rather than Google. I believe this can be done via the ...
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Hosts not recognized?
Basically, nobody can establish a connection to anything I host. The website, teamspeak, and game servers. I think it may have something to do with the hosts file or network configuration, but I have ...
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how to properly edit hosts, hostname and resolf.conf?
I have been searching the Internet for a real nop tutorial on the subject but could not found any direct info. on how to edit these files the proper way.
I have a Debian Internet server that I use to ...
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How to make Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox accessible from the internet?
I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu server in VirtualBox.
The host is Windows 7 x64.
The guest is Ubuntu 11.10 x64.
I want to make this server accessible from the internet. How can I do it?
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What unresolvable IP address should I use to block adverts?
I don't want to depend solely on in-browser ad blockers. I therefore created my own block list of advertisers' domains and pointed them all to a 0.0.0.0 IP address.
I now started a project and need ...
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Software for editing HOSTS file in windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Editing the HOSTS file
Is there a software which allow you to nicely edit hosts file in Windows? For instance, it should allow searching, and will display information in ...
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Hosts file, facebook and SettingsModifier: Win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack
I'm one of those people that needs a bit of protection from their selves at work, so I wanted to add facebook.com to my hosts file. But something strange happens. The moment I add it Microsoft ...
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Joomla cannot connect to MySQL using localhost
I have a fresh Joomla installation in a Mac OS X and I have configured a database to connect the application to. By default, Joomla uses localhost to connect (variable $host), but it does not work.
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How to access Guest (Windows XP) Internet from Host (Windows 7) in VMware Workstation?
I am using a 3G USB modem in Windows 7 64-bit. For some odd reason, it gives me a BSOD whenever I try to connect it. What I did is installed Windows XP SP2, in VMware and now I can use it inside the ...
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VirtualBox Apache needs to be accessed from the Ubuntu host
I have an Ubuntu 10.10 host on which I installed VirtualBox VM. In VirtualBox, I have installed two other Ubuntu machines mainly with the same configuration. I am trying to achieve a High Availability ...
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How to simulate entries in HOSTS file with an IE 7 browser plugin
Is it possible in Internet Explorer 7 to simulate HOSTS file entries with a plugin?
For example, can you tell IE to resolve all requests for xyz.com to a specific IP address?
We have some QA testers ...
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Hidden Global Proxy Settings?
I have a problem with proxies: I can not turn off proxy settings completely either in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3 or Firefox 3.5
I used to use FoxyProxy for switching between proxies in firefox ...
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hosts file for ip address
I would like to map ip address to specific localhost interfaces (e.g. 23.45.66.77 => 127.0.3.3). For named hosts I can use the hosts file. Naturally this doesn't work for IP address.
This has to work ...
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How can I create shorter URLs to sites on my computer?
I was wondering if I could use my Windows 7 hosts file to create shorter URLs for sites? OR is there another way. I tried ones like the following but I'm guessing it only works with IP Addresses?
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Corporate firewall blocking localhost/127.0.0.1
Is there some way I can access this without having it go through the corporate firewall at work? I'd like to set up a quick little production (WAMP) environment before moving things to the final ...
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etc/hosts question
Sometimes when I'm reading news I click on a headline and it takes me to telegraph.co.uk news which I don't like to read, so I tried to make my hosts file redirect to localhost. So in my hosts file I ...
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Where to get the global /etc/hosts file with all domains?
It can be useful to quickly look up domain name of IP and find neighbour domains served by the same IP, also to find definitely busy (and probably spare) domain names.
Also it's value will jump high ...
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Trasferring files from Host A to Host B without downloading on hard drive and simple ftp?
I have a website to move from One Host to another ..
for example : from bluehost to hostgator ... i have made my website zip which is 2 gb ..
i want to know if there is any software or something ...
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My websites on the same host seem to be down for me only… how can this happen?
I have a shared host in the States (I'm based in Australia) that is inaccessible from our internet (up to 3 computers using our ISP connection are receiving Problem loading page in FireFox).
Everyone ...
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Can a router map a URL to a local ip?
I'm setting up a facility with many different computers where I don't have access to their hosts files. How would I map test.com to a local server without using the hosts file? Can this be done using ...
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IEEE 802.1Q (VLANs): Can a station/host be configured as trunk?
I know that IEEE 802.1Q compliant switches can have their ports configured as access (just accept traffic from one specific VLAN) or trunk (carry traffic from more than one VLAN, it must be specified ...
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How did I manage to mangle my Mac OS X hosts?
A while ago I set reddit.com to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts, because it was way too much of a time sink. I don't remember exactly how I set it - I know I had some trouble with it and tried a few different ...
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DNS redirect in Win8 like it was possible with hosts file
there was a time when you could redirect a server for debugging purpose simply by changing the windows hosts file.
This does not work with windows 8.
So what is the easiest way to redirect (let's ...
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Adding a line into the hosts file, getting permission denied when using sudo - Mac
I'm trying to add a line into the hosts file on my Mac by executing a one line command on the terminal.
I thought this would be easy using sudo, but it returns "permission denied" when I try to add ...
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Hosts redirection not working properly
Simply put, I want to redirect uk.wikipedia.org to en.wikipedia.org.
I put this in the hosts file on windows, saved it, and flushed the DNS cache:
91.198.174.225 uk.wikipedia.org
But when I ...
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What's the Windows equivalent of “/etc/hosts”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I block certain websites from being accessed through a browser?
I can block my little brother from accessing a website on my Mac by adding the following line to ...
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Are asterisks in /etc/hosts supposed to have any effect?
I have something like this in /etc/hosts:
192.168.0.1 example.com
192.168.0.1 *.example.com
example.com is pinged to 192.168.0.1 as expected but pinging say sub.example.com outputs:
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Redirect a url to another url
I need to redirect a url to another url. THe PC where this should be done has Linux but no server program such as Apache. When the user type www.mycomerp.com, it should redirect it to ...
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How to redirect a domain to another one on my machine only?
I want all requests from my machine to
example.com
be redirected to
example.com.edgesuite.net
I tried adding the following line to the hosts file both on Windows and Linux
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How do I unprotect the hosts file?
I know that to edit the hosts file you need to launch a text editor as administrator, but that's cumbersome. I am the only person that uses my computer and I edit the hosts file quite frequently ...
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my LAN pcs are not able to connect to the Internet. I am using DHCP server and linkys router
My connection details:
A have atotal 10 PCs connected to Linksys router. DHCP is enabled in the router.
IP adddress: 192.168.0.103---013
subnet 255.255.255.0
gateway: 192.168.0.1
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Host File under MacOSX
I am trying to edit my host file to see how it works. But with no success.
I enter this in my /etc/host file:
173.194.66.103 www.youtube.com
And when I type 173.194.66.103 on the browser I get ...
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Why would I need a host adapter pcie card?
I have a total of 4 expansion slots on my pc. I'm putting a killer network card, graphic card, and a sound card in it. I searched a list of expansion cards to put in the last slot that could benefit ...
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Mac OSX localhost does not resolve
Trying to access localhost no longer works on my new Macbook air. It used to work just fine on my old Macbook Pro which was also running Mountain Lion. I have tried most suggestions found in other ...
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find out which program edited my hosts file
I have this line in my hosts file:
x.x.x.x www.google.com
For many times, I saw this line missing from my hosts file while everything else in it stayed untouched. in this case I would add this line ...
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create intranet website on windows 7
I want to create a web site in my LAN, but instead of using my laptop or PC as the hostname of the web site, users should be able to use something like css.domain.com.
I'm doing this because I want ...
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hosts file ignored
This is very strange issue. I'm on Windows XP. I have tried to put
41.41.41.41 facebook.com
41.41.41.41 www.facebook.com
into C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc/hosts. When I tried to save the file, ...
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How can I get other computers to see my new host name?
I recently set up my VM to have a machine name like this :
sudo /bin/hostname jax
sudo dhclient
However, my host machine cannot ping "jax" ?
I would assume this is all thats needed.... am i ...
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How do I access internal network virtual hosts in Apache?
This might be a stupid question but I'm tired and can't find a solution.
I currently have an Apache Web Server running on Ubuntu 10.4 and I use a DynDNS service to make them accessible to the ...
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How do I point my Domain Name to my host on my computer (it's Xampp)
How would I point my domain name registered with GoDaddy to my host on my computer. I'm using Xampp as my server. I'm really confused, I've pointed other domain names to other hosts on the internet ...
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Using a proxy server as a replacement for hosts file
When developing a website, it's often handy to map the domain to 'localhost' in your hosts file so you can use the real url in a browser. However, switching between local and public hosts using the ...
