Apologies to all, and to Darrick in particular, for having set this particular ball rolling. As he says, this originated off-list, and I am the one who mistakenly replied on-list. Please now ignore, and thanks for the suggestions.
Apologies again Tom PS Yes, I also got the hostname and IP address the wrong way round, so thanks On 4 Jan 2010, at 22:04, Darrick Hartman <dhart...@djhsolutions.com> wrote: > Can we please kill this thread? It wasn't supposed to be on the > mailing > list anyway. We're working on updating the documentation. When we > have > the framework a little further along, we can use some additional > people > to help, but right now I think we're OK. This was intended only for > that handful of people and not some permanent hack. > > Thanks, > > Darrick > > On 01/04/2010 03:41 PM, Dan Ryson wrote: >> Tom, >> >> Hosts works fine here on XP Pro SP3 at >> c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. However, I had to invert the >> order of the IP address and domain from that shown in Darrick's >> example. >> >> The entire file looks like this: >> >> # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 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: > > > -- > Darrick Hartman > DJH Solutions, LLC > http://www.djhsolutions.com > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast > and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org > . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
