Re: OT: ZBB

Hooray, it worked! (I really need the distraction at the moment)

Jeff

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:34:05 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:
>
>Wow.  Whole lotta unfamiliarity with hosts lookup going around, I see. :)
>
>So the domain expired and someone else snapped it up?  Telling people
>to add entries manually to their hosts file is not exactly a long-term
>solution. :)
>
>On any variety of UNIX going back to the dark ages, up to and
>including Linux, the name-to-address mapping file lives in /etc/hosts.
> For this reason, Microsoft  included a TCP/IP stack in Windows NT,
>the directory they put it in is also "etc", just buried a little
>deeper under C:\WINDOWS.  However, the versions of Windows that
>predate the merge with NT just have the hosts file in C:\WINDOWS
>directly.  So you're not out of luck on '98 (or even '95) - just put
>the lines in C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS.  (There should be a sample file -
>C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS.SAM - that you can look at).
>
>However, modern Unixes have a variety of other places to stick this
>stuff in, and may not be paying attention to /etc/hosts at all.  On
>Linux and many other modern versions of Unix, there's a file called
>/etc/nsswitch.conf that tells them where to look.  Make sure that
>"files" is one of the words after "hosts:" in that file.
>
>Mac OS uses something called NetInfo; after changing /etc/hosts, be
>sure to run this command in a Terminal window:
>
>sudo niload hosts . </etc/hosts