Well.. so much for that.. it was nice while it lasted. Today I got a 'connection refused' for hostsfile.tk, a quick check showed the site was down, and then a whois check turned this up:
Click File > Open and browse to the file at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (you can copy and paste this into the address bar at the top of the Open window). If you do browse through the Hosts File in Windows 10 : Locate, Edit and Manage May 10, 2020 Add/Edit hosts file Entry - STechies Please follow the steps below in order to add entry of Host in hosts file for host name and saptranshost: Hosts file path. 1. Go to the path >> C:WindowsSystem32driversetc. 2. Open 'hosts' file in notepad in Administrator mode. 3. Go to end of the file and add given below line
The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses.It is a plain text file. Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was manually maintained and made available via file sharing by Stanford Research Institute for the ARPANET membership, containing the hostnames and address of hosts as contributed for inclusion by member organizations.
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