[Scottish] Most definitely off topic

[Darren Paxton]

I'm pretty sure that the windows file is used first, since when I installed
kazaa lite, I had to fill the hosts file with the usual adserver addresses,
but reference them to localhost, so regularly when i visit certain sites, I
get lots of "page not found errors" because its trying to load from
localhost.

Therefore, i'd say its done by default

Darren
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cameron" <Michael.Cameron@Galston.co.uk>
To: <scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:59 PM
Subject: [Scottish] Most definitely off topic


> A windoze question if you can bear with me (sorry).
> Is there a windows equivalent of /etc/nsswitch.conf?  How do I ensure that
a
> hosts file is used before DNS?
>
> I'd ask a windows list but (1) I don't belong to one and (2) I don't want
to
> associate with anyone who does.
>
> TIA,
>
> Michael
>
>
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