Sometimes we are adding even exchange Server Domain even in Host file . Can anyone tell me ? .why any need of
writing these info in the host file ? . let me know please .
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Sometimes we are adding even exchange Server Domain even in Host file . Can anyone tell me ? .why any need of
writing these info in the host file ? . let me know please .
if they arent running a domain server they can manually enter domains in there.
1. It's faster to look up a host name in the host file than to query a DNS for it.
2. When a host has more than 1 IP address published and you want to specify which address to use. For example, many of the servers at my work have multiple NIC's and each NIC is assigned a different IP address for different purposes. For example, 192.168.0.254 is the address for the primary nic which handles AD authentication, file sharing... and 10.0.0.254 is the address for another nic which talks to the AS400 mainframe. If we don't put the 192.168.0.254 IP in host file, we have 50/50 percent of it being incorrectly resolved to 10.0.0.254 and when this happens, the users lose all their mapped drives....
anyway what is the extension of the host file ? .as the file hosts inside the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc does not seems to be ini file . let me know please .any help would be highly appreciated .
it doesn't have an extension. it's a standard text file though and can be edited in notepad.