Adding an host programmatically (name resolution under Windows)

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Published on 2009-03-17T07:09:16Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 21:01 UTC
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I would like to programmatically add to Windows a name / IP association so that this name can be resolved locally. This does not have to be persisted between reboots.

The only way I now is to add an entry to the "hosts" file, but this feels hacky especially since I would like to automate this.

Is there any way to do this using a command-line tool or a Win32 API? Perhaps by addind an entry to Windows DNS cache or something similar?

Oh, and please state if this solution is Vista-compatible.

Regards.

Edit : Thanks, guy. Sadly, all of your answers indeed involve DNS or other servers. I was looking for a purely local solution which would work on a "standard" Windows installation. Such a thing does not seem to exist, though.

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