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aurora14
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:20 am    Post subject: HOSTS file Reply with quote
I deleted the HOSTS file located at Windows/System32/Drivers/ETC/HOSTS
by mistake. What effect does it have on my computer and is there any
way to remedy the situation?


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Aaron Leonard
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:49 am    Post subject: Re: HOSTS file Reply with quote
~ I deleted the HOSTS file located at Windows/System32/Drivers/ETC/HOSTS
~ by mistake. What effect does it have on my computer

It means that you can't resolve any hostnames that had been in that
table, and so you'll either have to rely upon DNS or refer to those
hosts by IP address.

~ and is there any way to remedy the situation?

Restore the file from a backup. If you don't have a backup, then
use DNS, or enter a new hosts file.

Aaron (who remembers when the Internet actually had *a* hosts file,
from SRI-NIC.)
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