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Originally Posted by dav3
HOSTS file trick? Please elaborate, if you don't mind.
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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm - read more there.
Windows uses a file Called HOSTS in windows\system32\drivers\etc
Its from old days when you had to manually define SAMBA shares etc, or DNS values to IPs on old networks.
This allows you to route all kinds of http addys and keywords to bind to localhost so they never come up