As far as Windows XP is concerned what is someone's options as far as manually pointing certain names to IPs? I have a friend who's having trouble accessing a message board of mine that's hosted on an InvisionFree server (http://z6.invisionfree.com/) and it doesn't seem like editing the HOSTS file will work to a proper extent.
So my questions are:
-What alternatives are there to the HOSTS file for manually defining DNS addresses and getting this to work properly with the invisionfree subdomains?
-What's the proper way to use the HOSTS file if I'm missing something (right now I just have it routing a host name to "209.85.48.3")?
LoL Tribunal:
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
Yeah and I've got it pointing to somewhere but it doesn't seem to work properly since the forum doesn't resolve links correctly and sometimes I just get pages like "congrats Apache is installed".
Telling your friend to use a real DNS server instead of the (most likely) junk that his ISP provides is one option... (OpenDNS, 4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.4, run own DNS servers,etc.)
But if the hosts file trick doesn't work... this likely won't either.
Posts
127.0.0.1 www.website.com
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
Right now the exact entry is:
209.85.48.3 z6.invisionfree.com
But if the hosts file trick doesn't work... this likely won't either.
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