[Klug-general] bt web address help irritation

[Jeremy King MBCS, FrGS]

I'm guessing that BT is your ISP?
This site is where BT resolves to when DNS resolution does not work.  
On 5 May 2013, at 19:26, james morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I do web development on my home desktop running httpd, I usually
> create a host name to use for the dev site by adding, ie.
> somedevdomain-com (note hyphen) to /etc/hosts, but irritatingly, when
> I type that into firefox, firefox initially redirects it to
> webaddresshelp.bt.com. Typing it again (sometimes more than once) and
> I get my dev site.
> 
> Is there anyway I can get my dev/home-desktop to look at it's own
> hosts file before anything else?
> 
> Thanks,
> James.
> 
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