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RE: [cobalt-users] site/user access before propagation RAQ550



 --- 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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