Windows 7 stopped using the 'hosts' file for DNS resolution
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I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Starting today, I noticed that DNS resolution is not reading my file. I say this because I added two new entries to the file and when I run 'nslookup' on the command line, they don't resolve. Further, just trying to resolve 'localhost' results in my prima…
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%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
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Fix for: Windows 7 stopped using the 'hosts' file for DNS resolution
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When you run an on an address, Windows will query the DNS server and won't look in the hosts file. Always. However, when it actually goes to connect, it will use the host files value. Try adding example.com to your hosts file, and have it point to 1…
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