When using the Internet most people connect to web sites, ftp servers or other Internet servers by connecting to a domain name, as in www.bleepingcomputer.com. Internet applications, though, do not ...

Hosts File is basically the file used by Microsoft Windows to map hostnames to IP addresses. In simple words, IP addresses can be given names like web addresses. For example, if you’ve hosted a local ...

When it's enabled, trying to hit "production.server.com" adds a second entry to the DNS resolver cache, one with the real IP address of the production server, in addition to the entry I listed above ...

Despite how much I hate having a manual HOSTS file on a PC, we're stuck with it for a specific legacy program that refuses to use DNS lookups or direct IP addresses.<br><br>Because of this, we have to ...

The Hosts file in Windows 11/10, is used to map host names to IP addresses. If for some reason, you find that your Hosts file has been compromised and that some malicious entries have been added, you ...