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| racketboy - Jun 11, 2003 |
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racketboy | Jun 11, 2003 | ||
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What's the IP address for one's own machine? I remember something in my VB class about how a certain IP address that is always the local machine anybody know what that it? | ||||
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antime | Jun 11, 2003 | ||
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What's the IP address for one's own machine? 127.0.0.1 | ||||
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racketboy | Jun 11, 2003 | |||
What's the IP address for one's own machine?
great thanks! | |||||
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Curtis | Jun 12, 2003 | ||
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What's the IP address for one's own machine? Most OS's should also recognise "localhost" - it's the same thing. | ||||
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DBOY | Jun 12, 2003 | ||
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What's the IP address for one's own machine? Actually localhost in most OS'es comes from your DNS lookup table. You can set your machine ot manually link certain domains to certain IPs. If you open up your HOSTS file on Windows or Linux, the first uncomments line will be 127.0.0.1 localhost A side note, if you know of some annoyign banner site domains and such, you can set them to 127.0.0.1 to effectivly block all content from them as well. Here's one friendly example. Maybe you've been browsing the internet and stumbled upon Netster, it claism to be a search engine but it's actually just an advertising site that takes over dead domain names left and right. Adding: # Netster 127.0.0.1 at.netster.com 127.0.0.1 netster.com 127.0.0.1 www.netster.com... 127.0.0.1 in.netster.com 127.0.0.1 search.netster.com 127.0.0.1 mail.netster.com 127.0.0.1 smartbrowse.netster.com 127.0.0.1 www.s2ml.org... 127.0.0.1 s2ml.org 127.0.0.1 www.pzchat.org... 127.0.0.1 pzchat.org 127.0.0.1 www.moolahouse.com... 127.0.0.1 moolahouse.com 127.0.0.1 netster.mygeek.com 127.0.0.1 www.familyhandman.com... 127.0.0.1 familyhandman.com 127.0.0.1 www.my-jobs-careers.com... 127.0.0.1 my-jobs-careers.com 127.0.0.1 www.casitatrailers.com... 127.0.0.1 casitatrailers.com 127.0.0.1 www.hackeredu.net... 127.0.0.1 hackeredu.net 127.0.0.1 un-instraw-gains.org 127.0.0.1 www.netsterdomains.com... 127.0.0.1 netsterdomains.com 127.0.0.1 www.pilrc.com... 127.0.0.1 pilrc.com 127.0.0.1 www.wistalliance.org... 127.0.0.1 wistalliance.org 127.0.0.1 www.pilkanozna.net... 127.0.0.1 pilkanozna.net 127.0.0.1 www.realnetworks.com... 127.0.0.1 realnetworks.com 127.0.0.1 www.ebix.com... 127.0.0.1 ebix.com 127.0.0.1 www.wrheritage.com... 127.0.0.1 wrheritage.com Would block you from seeing any of the netster garbage if you go to a URL that died. This works great for porn sites, banner ads, etc. | ||||
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Curtis | Jun 12, 2003 | ||
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What's the IP address for one's own machine? Ah right - that's a neat little trick.  | ||||