Wed 10 Aug 2005
On Windows you can manually match hostnames to IP addresses using the hosts file located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. An example of a hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost #10.22.1.18 foo foo.bar.ca 16.17.18.19 toronto 16.17.18.125 boston
If you find that the contents of the hosts file are not being picked up by Windows it might be because the file is corrupted though the corruption is not evident in your editor. The best thing to do is to delete or move that file and create a brand new hosts file and hopefully the contents of this hosts file will be picked up by Windows.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am
Holy smokes, this worked great for me. Thank you!