{"id":1263,"date":"2009-05-31T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2009-05-31T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T18:18:06","slug":"hosts-file-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"hosts file in windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

in xp: \\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts, playing the same role as \/etc\/hosts in linux<\/p>\n

with it you can block some web site entry: 127.0.0.1 www.***.com
\nwith it you can setup intranet shortcut: 192.168.1.4 mybaby
\nwith it you can intranetly visit your www server: 192.168.1.x www.mysite.net (or 192.168.1.1 router)
\nor internetly visit your www server: 12.34.56.78 www.mysite.net<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I use it during my domain transfer. By mistake, domain “www.softbeam.net” is out of order for 5 days, which would otherwise prevent myself from blogging on my wordpress site.<\/p>\n

This kind of IP based mutual recognition also means that you even don’t need a real domain name. Just have ips of your circle of boxes, or together with your friends, pointing to the computer with any fake domain name like “microsoft.com”, then you can have, or with your friends, your own “microsoft.com” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

in xp: \\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts, playing the same role as \/etc\/hosts in linux with it you can block some web site entry: 127.0.0.1 www.***.com with it you can setup intranet shortcut: 192.168.1.4 mybaby with it you can intranetly visit your www server: 192.168.1.x www.mysite.net (or 192.168.1.1 router) or internetly visit your www server: 12.34.56.78 www.mysite.net I use … Continue reading “hosts file in windows”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softbeam.net\/hobby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}