On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Tony B wrote:
NM. I finally stumbled blindly into the solution. If you can describe
today's last 6 hours as a blind stumble. :)
My hosts file at noon today when I started:
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127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
# Start of entries inserted by Spybot - Search & Destroy 127.0.0.1
.archivioadulti.com
...
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Eventually, I finally tried pinging just "localhost" which _should_
have pinged 127.0.0.1. Instead, it tried to ping "::1". That was just
too odd to bear, so I tried deleting the "::1 localhost" line, and
that seems to have solved the problem. I doubt I will ever know where
that line came from.
"::1" is the IPv6 equivalent to 127.0.0.1, always the local machine.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why is WinVista ignoring my hosts file? As a test I've added
www.yahoo.com to the end (behind all the Spybot entries), but despite
reboots and disabling the DNS service, I can still ping and browse to
the site. I can also ping the sites entered by Spybot. TIA
Vista Home Premium SP1
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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