Originally Posted by
BigLar
Contrary to what I've been told, I did a reboot - at that time, the hosts file was read in, and now everything on the list winds up being unreachable (according to ping).
Which is what I wanted.
I generally put my computers to sleep rather than shut down, so I got out of the habit of rebooting.
that's weird, I don't have to reboot with win7. Changes to the hosts file are applied immediately. I just tested it with yahoo.com, entry in the file, ping used that, entry not in the file, ping used dns. No reboot, just edit the file.
I wonder if there's a policy for it somewhere, similar to nsswitch.conf?
Yeah, there is, post #2 in this thread:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Systems...8#.VPHCl1PF-Qw
My values were the same as what he reported. Are yours different?
-David