Hosts File Location
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Topic: Hosts File Location
Posted By: iSec
Subject: Hosts File Location
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 12:43pm
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Does anyone know whether it is possible to change the location for the file Hosts located under the following directory: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\ ((for Windows XP)) without affecting applications that connect to it such as Internet Explorer ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file - Hosts File Description ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 3:01pm
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Chek out these two KB articles http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;172218 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;172218 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139270/EN-US/ - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139270/EN-US/ ------------- 
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 6:02pm
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There should be no real need to change the hosts file location. If you are having problems with viruses etc adding entries to your hosts file use a tool like the one in Spybot S & D to lock the hosts file  |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 6:53pm
Niether one implies the possiblety for changing the location of the file Hosts  ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
dpyers wrote:Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 7:01pm
I have no problem with viruses as I have a good virus protection software; but what makes me want to change it is because I have been using a software for a long while and used to redirect it to a page I created instead of having it go to the page it wants to go to. Unfortunately, the software vendor found out about it and released a new version of it which prevented me from doign what I used to do.
The new version of the software checks for the hosts file on the user's machine and if it finds that I made a change to it, it will not let me connect to the server where that software operates. So that is why I wanna change the location of the file "hosts" to somewhere else! ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 28 December 2005 at 7:19pm
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Sorry, I thought one of the articles listed locations in the order it would search them for a hosts file and the other one noted how to change registry values. MS may hav other articles on the hosts file. You might want to search there for something like "hosts registry"
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 29 December 2005 at 1:14pm
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Just run a local DNS server (google Posadis). Then you set you DNS server to be the local one you are running on your computer. Then you can make a custom record that is the same as redirection with a hosts file |