Lionel
March 4th, 2003, 07:30 AM
If you are using windows NT/2000 you can set www.conceptart.org to always point to the ip 209.126.148.88. Which means that you can use the www.conceptart.org address even when the DNS is broken. Go to the folder
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc
and open the file "hosts"
in this file is a list of IPs and the DNS entry for them. Add the following two lines.
209.126.148.88 www.conceptart.org
209.126.148.88 conceptart.org
The entries are separated by a tab. This file is always consulted before a DNS server so you can can override DNS entries with your own values. Complelety usless you might thing but actually if you add a line like
127.0.0.1 ads.myeveilcompany.com
Everything trying to get pictures from ads.myeveilcompany.com will get their request redirected to the local machine which should fail and mean the ads should not be displayed.
I wouldn't advise doing this unless you know what a IP address is and a DNS server and the realation ship between the two but if someone could write this up an a more newbie friendly way that would be good. Lastly don't forget to change these entries when the machines' IP changes as otherwise suddenly DNS entries mysteriously stop working :/.
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc
and open the file "hosts"
in this file is a list of IPs and the DNS entry for them. Add the following two lines.
209.126.148.88 www.conceptart.org
209.126.148.88 conceptart.org
The entries are separated by a tab. This file is always consulted before a DNS server so you can can override DNS entries with your own values. Complelety usless you might thing but actually if you add a line like
127.0.0.1 ads.myeveilcompany.com
Everything trying to get pictures from ads.myeveilcompany.com will get their request redirected to the local machine which should fail and mean the ads should not be displayed.
I wouldn't advise doing this unless you know what a IP address is and a DNS server and the realation ship between the two but if someone could write this up an a more newbie friendly way that would be good. Lastly don't forget to change these entries when the machines' IP changes as otherwise suddenly DNS entries mysteriously stop working :/.