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Can you explain me what I need to add in my hosts file for no dns look up
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I'm using Ubuntu, as many proxy applications, GNOME Network Proxy Preferences only allow to ignore hosts. What I want to do is exactly the opposite. I only want to use the proxy for few sites. Is it possible to define only the allowed hosts in any way?
PS: I know FoxyProxy add-on for Firefox does…
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I have a network share on a machine that I can only reach by IP address. I then defined an alias for the IP in my hosts file so I could use that instead of the IP but then I can't log on to the share, I just get the logon prompt again and again. So basically this:
\\172.17.0.48\SomeShare
works but…
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The hosts file on Windows computers is used to bind certain name strings to specific IP addresses to override other name resolution methods.
Often, one decides to change the hosts file, and discovers that the changes refuse to take effect, or that even old entries of the hosts file are ignored thereafter…
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If you’re looking to quickly share a file across a variety of file hosting services, Uploading.to makes it a cinch to share up to 10 files across 14 hosts.
The upload process is simple. Visit Uploading.to, select your files, check the hosts you want to share the file across (by default all…
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I'm very new to ubuntu so I'm sure this is a dumb question.
I wanted to install some source code that was on git. Don't really know what that means, I've never used git before, but I figured it was time to learn so I first installed git. Next I tried to clone the git directory of the software I…
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We currently have primary and secondary DNS servers on our corporate network. They are setup in a master/slave type setup, where the slave gets its DNS information from the master.
I'm trying to figure out what the real advantage is for the master/slave setup instead of just setting up an automated…
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Does anyone know if it is possible for a windows 2003 DNS server to update the records for a domain so that it contains all the records of a domain of of a remotely based DNS server?
Im almost certain that doesn't quite explain the problem so I shall illustrate with an example:
We have two offices…
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I've finally noodled with OpenVPN enough to get it working. Even better, I can mount samba drives, ping network machines through the TUN device, etc - it's all great.
However, I'm noticing that if I have the directive:
push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.1.1" # Push our local DNS to clients
Then some of…
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Within our office, we have a local server running DNS, for internal related "domains", (e.g. .internal, .office, .lan, .vpn, etc.). Randomly, only the hosts configured with those extensions will stop resolving on the Windows-based workstations. Sometimes it'll work for a couple weeks without issue…
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A DNS or Domain Name System lets you locate computers on a network or the Internet TCP/IP network by domain name. The DNS server sustains a database of domain names or host names along with their cor... [Author: Daisy Osbaldo - Computers and Internet - April 02, 2010]
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