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To: George W. Bush
What's a "hosts file"?
6 posted on 01/28/2004 4:06:36 PM PST by Principled
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To: Principled
I'm going to report you to JohnRob!
8 posted on 01/28/2004 4:07:39 PM PST by George W. Bush
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To: Principled
It's a text file used by the computer to resolve numerical/long name domain names. This is used in place of the ISP domain name server (DNS) which most people should use, since IP addresses sometimes change, which means manually changing the entries in the host file in the windows directory.
12 posted on 01/28/2004 4:08:40 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (All Our Base Are Belong To Dubya)
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