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ok who is the resident host file expert around here these days?
I have recently put a new hosts file in place because there were some ads on sites that I didnt want to see all the time....probably should have been using one the entire time laziness probably kept me from doing so until now.
Question is, what can I change inside the hosts file to have it display an image file of my choosing instead of the usual "unable to connect" in firefox or "page cannot be displayed" in IE.
I think you will need to use an addon program such as Homer, http://www.funkytoad.com/content/view/14/32/
Here's another, "eDexter": http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/eDexter.html
I have heard that 127.0.0.1 localhost has to be somewhere in your host file......
WHAT IF IT ISNT???? (I have it in mine but im just curious)
Any program (which includes internet browsers) that needs/uses the localhost reference needs to know where that reference is pointed to. The IP address 127.0.0.1 is the local PC. In the default Microsoft HOSTS file, the one and only listing is 127.0.0.1 localhost.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dude111
I have never seen the localhost reference pointed to anywhere other than 127.0.0.1. I have no idea how things might be mucked up without the listing...
127.0.0.1 also know as localhost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost
What is 127.0.0.1?
http://www.tech-faq.com/127.0.0.1.shtml
Yes i know what 127.0.0.1 is.... I just didnt know why "localhost" had to be one of the entrys..
Think of "localhost" as the domain name for "127.0.0.1".
Some programs use "localhost" instead of "127.0.0.1" and others use "127.0.0.1" instead of "localhost".
Six of one, half a dozen of another. :)
Ah.......
:)
see what I am thinking is if you can go further and point all the redirects to something like
127.0.0.1\kazz.jpg or something similar I know that the message displayed is coming from the redirect to some microsoft html page......all I have to do is identify that page and then modify the code to point where I want it to.....There is no real educational value to this test....just want to see if I can do some customization.
127.*.*.* all point to the same place (the local host). What a waste of address space. :D
I don't think it has to be there; in fact I'm sure I've used machines which don't even have a HOSTS file at all. Comment it out and you can still ping localhost. :) I think it's just in the default as an example which doesn't affect existing functionality.
I'm pretty sure you'd actually need a proxy server and rewriting engine for that (eg squid/squidGuard). Alternatively, if you could run up your own web server so that any request to any URL returned the same image, that would let you do it with just a HOSTS file.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarrkazztic
As Tuttle notes, I just don't think it's possible to go direct like that. The very reason for Homer and eDexter is exactly for that purpose...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarrkazztic
Dude111 (especially)--Probably more than you ever wanted to know about the HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/
If a site is in the HOSTS file, the HOSTS directs a clicked link to that site to where you tell it to go. If that is "local host" (127.0.0.1) you are basically directing the link back to your PC and no connection is made with the site of the clicked link.
I think you can also use 0.0.0.0. (I cannot remember the difference between using 0.0.0.0 and 127.0.0.1).
Sarrkazztic--If you tell HOSTS to direct a click on a link to a site you do not wish to go to, to rather go to another site with a pretty picture instead of "local host", you can do that, too.
I have 5 entires in my host file and i of those entrys is
"127.0.0.1 localhost"
I have always wondered why that entry was there..... (The localhost one)
127.0.0.1 is "localhost" so i dont see why that entry is needed.....
Without the entry, Windows would not know 127.0.0.1 is "localhost". It the only entry in the default Microsoft HOSTS file.
Oh ok,thank you,now i understand :)