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RE: [cobalt-users] site/user access before propagation RAQ550
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] site/user access before propagation RAQ550
- From: Ursula <ursulasays@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Dec 11 22:31:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
--- Steven Young <steven.young@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > How about for viewing the site itself before the
> DNS
> > is working? This one I don't hold out much hope
> for,
> > I've never seen a raq do it before.
> >
>
> You can add an entry to your PC's HOSTS file to
> point a domain to an IP
> before DNS has propogated. This will only work on
> the client machine you
> edit the HOSTS file on.
>
> Win 95/98/Me: c:\windows\hosts
> Win NT/2000/XP:
> c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or
> c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
> Linux: /etc/hosts
>
> Hope this helps,
> Steven Young
>
Thanks, I was aware of that one. I'm holding out hope
one day cobalt will give us an URL-method of accessing
sites still propagating.
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