Is there a way to cause chrome/ie/firefox to reload the local "hosts" file without restarting the app?
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Mar 15, 202610247 viewsConfidence Score0%
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In my occupation as a sysadmin, I often find times where I need to "game the system" by editing the host file. Doing so preempts any dns records for a domain name and allows me to make the ip whatever I want for a given hostname. This is extremely useful. The downside to this is that every time I w…
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When using chrome, you can go to and purge the dns resolver cache. As iglvzx mentioned, you can use extensions in firefox to achieve the same function. Unfortunately, it appears that Internet Explorer has no analogous feature at this time.
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