From: John Cuccia 

David,

You might want to try working your way through the article referenced below
(I'd give it a try, but I've had a couple of beers and it looks like *way*
too much work ).

The link points to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article describing how to
change the order in which Window does name resolution lookups.  I'm wildly
speculating that your system may be doing it via DNS before checking hosts.

Note that while it doesn't specify Windows 2000 as a relevant system, the
registry entries are there (I am assuming that you are using W2K). The
pertinent registry values are in the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TCPIP\ServiceProvider"

Here's the URL:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/
support/kb/articles/Q139/2/70.asp&NoWebContent=1




On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:16:28 -0600, "David Blair"
 wrote:

>No- it blocks others in the hosts file.
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:q6lbhvkc5v8o3vhpo8184f6agupfgjk34h{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> Is your browser set up to use a proxy server?  If so, it may bypass your
>> local host file and use the one on the proxy server.
>>
>>  /m
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:33:07 -0500, "David Blair"

>> wrote:
>>
>> >I have a site entered into my hosts table that I want redirected because
>I
>> >don't want to be redirected on a website I use.
>> >
>> >Even though I have it in my hosts table, I'm still getting sent there.
>Any
>> >ideas?
>> >
>>
>

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