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| Thread ID: 115135 | 2011-01-03 22:05:00 | iSky available | wainuitech (129) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1166818 | 2011-03-09 03:39:00 | Ah, I have no idea how to do this. Are you able to enlarge on that? LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1166819 | 2011-03-09 03:45:00 | Hosts file is where windows looks up first before trying to use dns. It lives here C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc Simply edit it with notepad and add a line with skys ip address first, tab, then their url. Note that sky might have multiple IP Addresses, Im not sure. Save it when you're done but makesure you dont save it as hosts.txt, it needs to be just hosts like it was before you edit it. Its pretty safe to edit this file but if you want just make a copy of it before you start editing it and save it on your desktop or something. That way you can always put it back. :-) |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 1166820 | 2011-03-09 04:03:00 | There is no file called Hosts in the etc folder. these are what it does have though: hosts.MSN Imhosts networks protocol services I am using VISTA, if that makes any difference? LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1166821 | 2011-03-09 06:37:00 | There is no file called Hosts in the etc folder. these are what it does have though: hosts.MSN Imhosts networks protocol services I am using VISTA, if that makes any difference? LL that doesnt look right. If you open the hosts.msn file with notepad what is in it...anything? |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 1166822 | 2011-03-09 08:01:00 | This might be the one. # Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost So what should I enter into it and where exactly ? LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1166823 | 2011-03-09 08:57:00 | This might be the one. # Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost So what should I enter into it and where exactly ? LL you need to ping the isky address again and make a note of the ip address. Then add it to the host file in the same format as above i.e under the last line add 60.x.x.x isky.co.nz then save it (note Im not sure if isky.co.nz is the url so change it to whatever the correct one is). Basically all this is doing is telling the computer that whenever the url is typed into a browser, go to the corresponding ip address and do not ask a dns server for an address. Once you have saved it get rid of the .msn extension. It should simply be named hosts with no extension. Let me know how you get on. |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 1166824 | 2011-03-09 09:30:00 | Is this correct? Not sure if I have done it right. It still doesn't work. I may have to double check on the IP address with isky support. # Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost # 60.234.60.202 isky.co.nz |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1166825 | 2011-03-09 09:32:00 | Take the leading hash off - that marks the line as a comment, so windows ignores it. | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1166826 | 2011-03-09 09:48:00 | Oops, ok, will try that. LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1166827 | 2011-03-09 10:09:00 | Nope that didn't work, so I will have another think about whether to dump Open DNS. They did say that as they don't have a DATA Center Server in our (Australia, NZ) area it would be difficult and bandwidth hogging to set up. Still, I will try the isky support again tomorrow. Many thanks Barnabas and ubergeek for helping. Cheers LL |
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