![]() ![]() I haven't thought of that extra attachment for years. Windows files can have an extra hidden attachment to them not normally visible. Recreating the file fixed the need for the flushdns but broke the use of the link even with the flushdns. The interesting thing is that before I used Robert's solution, it would still honor the symbolic link after a flushdns. They must have changed something really core in how it even reads the file in order for it to not even honor a symbolic (nor hard) link any more. That was a wonderful time and aggravation saver. I'd been using a symbolic link between the hosts file location and where I kept my real file in my dropbox folder. I am still digging around for an answer some said simply re-create the hosts file (maybe the vanilla one is corrupted).Īnyone have input that can help fix the HOST FILE NOT WORK question? and that is not an answer to the "topic".Īpparently, the hosts file not working is a common issue for users in Windows 7. Okay, this may qualify as an answer to the question, but we are on a microsoft message board, and the title is "HOSTS FILE NOT WORKING". This allows you to have better control than hosts files as you can allow opendns to auto updated blockes sites which pump out malware / scareware.Īnd you do know you must use a text editor to edit the host file and that you must save it back without an. If you have access to the router on the network you can also input the opendns servers IP as the default DNS serversĪnd ALL the PC's which use the routers dhcp (DNS settings) will have those sites blocked as well. ![]() You can setup a free account and using the dyndns updater and block sites without mesing with the hosts file. ![]()
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