Hosts aren't recognized

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Manuel

I'm on a network and we have sompe hosts that runs
internally only, also I have access to the Internet. When
I try to access one of those hosts, my hosts archive seems
like is not being read.
I have edited correctly my hosts to the route
winnt\system32\drivers\etc
in the file hosts I have written the Ip add and the host
name, but it doesn't works
Please I need suggestions to solve that problem.

Thanks and Regards

Manuel
 
Is the DNS client service running? From a command prompt type "ipconfig
/displaydns" does it show the entries in your hosts file?

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Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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Marc,

It doesn't show that table, instead shows an error message:
The DNS cache resolution cannot be shown


Thanx
 
try "net start dnscache"

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Marc,

I tryed out, and the dns cache starts and when I write the
command ipconfig /displaydns, shows a list that is too
large in order to look up for the hostname I want to
reach, and the problem persists.
The host I want to reach is in our intranet and when I
ping the hostname still looks up in the Internet instead
of looking in the intranet.
Maybe the dnscache has wrong URLs, how can I restore to
the original??, or there is something else you can suggest
me to resolve the problem?.

Thanks a lot.
 
Do you have a very large number of entires in your hosts file? Test by
renaming your hosts files to hosts.old and create a new hosts file with only
the entry for the host you are trying to reach. After you have done this,
type "ipconfig /flushdns" then try to ping the host.
Also make sure you are pinging using the FQDN of the host, for example "ping
host.internaldomainname.com"

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Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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