hosts and lmhosts

[colinearpsycho]

why's that?

nslookup returned this:


drive:\directory\location>nslookup
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: serv.er.ip
>

 

[logicearth]

Because the lmhosts file is only used for special-purpose corporate environments.

 

[colinearpsycho]

....

like Pup/PARC? I don't mean to be redundant and beg the question, but the purpose seems like while it was designed for xxxx....it can be applied general purpose. any reason why it can't, as a finite answer, be applied more generally than an in-house network?

i was assignging the #pre ... switch? argument? so that when the browser loads, it is already anticipating this ip to this domain. is that not an accurate use?

 

[WebMattR]

Leave lmhosts alone.

x2. In this day and age, lmhosts is ignored by your machine.

 

[pparks1]

lmhosts isn't used anymore. Like I have said, probably a dozen times, it's for netbios name resolution on Microsoft workgroup or domain based networks. However, it's been replaced with DNS for a number of years now and is almost not used anywhere. The only thing it's applicable to is a home, business or corporate network. This isn't routable on the Internet and won't be used for resolving websites and the like. It's only for netbios names on a Microsoft Network.

 

[colinearpsycho]

ok, fair enough. take care folks.