Configure static host name to ip address mappings

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Created: Sep 16, 2003     Updated: Sep 22, 2003


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Using the hosts file, ip addresses can be mapped to hostnames. This is useful to access systems that do not have a DNS entry and for test and development purposes.

The hosts file exists in the SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC directory under the Windows root directory (i.e., \WINDOWS or \WINNT). Edit this file and add a line like:

192.168.1.15   testserver test.domain.com


This would map two names to the ip address 192.168.1.15, testserver and test.domain.com

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