RE: tictech: Simple Internet Filtering...the HOSTS file

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-tictech message:

No, there is nothing in the DHCP Server related to HOSTS files and TCP/IP
is supposed to go to the HOSTS file before going to the DNS server. But,
it appears to be using the HOSTS file after DNS fails. In Microsoft's
earliest form of TCP/IP, there was a checkbox to allow or disallow the
HOSTS file. But, not for a long time.

-Wes
Wes Felty <wfelty@gte.net>

At 08:15 AM 9/27/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>-tictech message:
>
>With regards to the problem using the HOSTS file with SSD computer, perhaps
>the DHCP servers are disabling the use of HOSTS. The HOSTS file is a DNS
>setting, which the DHCP servers would control.
>
>Joe Weatherby
>jmweatherby@seattleschools.org

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