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Map localhost to IP address on Windows XP & Internet Explorer 7+?

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I'm trying to map 'localhost' to an IP address elsewhere on the network, say '10.0.1.1' for example. I've tried editing my hosts file, changing the entry from: to with no luck. The closest I've gotten is using DNS spoofing via Charles. Adding a DNS spoof entry mapping the host name 'localhost' to '…

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127.0.0.1   localhost

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Fix for: Map localhost to IP address on Windows XP & Internet Explorer 7+?

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As far as I know it's not possible to remap localhost, since it's part of the TCP/IP stack, also a lot of things depends on this setting and I would break almost everything network related. If you can provide a little more of insight about what you …

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