Tatva-Artha » hosts http://www.tatvartha.com meaning of "it" Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:00:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hosts file on Windows Vista http://www.tatvartha.com/2009/06/hosts-file-on-windows-vista/ http://www.tatvartha.com/2009/06/hosts-file-on-windows-vista/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:47:17 +0000 Sharad http://www.tatvartha.com/?p=180 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Getting hosts file (for DNS resolution) to work on Windows vista could be aggravating because of all the security and access control that it has in place. In my case, I couldn’t get it to honor the entries in my hosts file. Commonly proposed solutions modifying UAC, and flushing DNS cache didn’t work for me.

Today I found this. stopping/restarting dns cache service worked. Not sure how this is different from flushing-dns but it worked for me.

> net stop dnscache

> net start dnscache

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]]> http://www.tatvartha.com/2009/06/hosts-file-on-windows-vista/feed/ 0 Updating hosts file on Windows Vista http://www.tatvartha.com/2009/05/updating-hosts-file-on-windows-vista/ http://www.tatvartha.com/2009/05/updating-hosts-file-on-windows-vista/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 20:24:58 +0000 admin http://www.tatvartha.com/?p=157 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I had hard time to get Windows Vista to recognize my changes to hosts file… until now.

Stopping the DNS cache service did the trick:

net stop dnscache

Enjoy!

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