At 10:05 PM 8/6/01 +0530, Ariya wrote the following:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Debbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:44 PM
>Subject: PCWorks: Still online problem
>
>
>: Hi all,
>: Well I still have an online problem, I can still get online but cannot
>: receive email or browse. I have installed Netscape to see if my problem
>was
>: with Internet Explorer, but still no joy.
>: I now get a message: Netscape was unable to create a network socket
>: connection. There may be insufficient system resources or the network may
>: be down. Now I know the network is not down as I am able to jump straight
>: on my other computer and receive email and browse the net.
>
>Please try after deleting the hosts*.* file in c:\windows and restarting.
NO NO NO... You do not want to delete the HOSTS.SAM file or you will lose
the good information it contains on how to use a generic HOSTS file.
The HOSTS file (no file extension) contains IP address and the corresponding
domain name and is used so you do not have to ask a DNS server to translate
the domain name into an IP number. This speeds up access to the host site
you want to see because your computer no longer has to query other systems
on the Internet for the address translation. When you type in a web address
like www.google.com, the host name portion of the web address is translated
into an IP address (216.239.39.100) before the site is accessed. If you put
Google's host and IP settings into your Hosts file, it would load a little
quicker because your computer doesn't have to ask another to translate where
to look for Google.
The HOSTS file can also be used to block a site by using the standard local
host IP address 127.0.0.1. This will show a 404 Error (not found) or other
message like "unreachable". It will NOT show a "socket" error message.
Examples:
127.0.0.1 localhost #do not remove
216.239.39.100 www.google.com #google search engine
127.0.0.1 www.hotgirls.com #nasty site to block
NOTE: A simple way to find the IP address of a site is to use nslookup.
--
Gerry Boyd
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