Hosts File Domain Name Resolution. Host name resolution generally uses the following sequence. It was the original method to resolve hostnames to a specific IP address.
In my next blog post I will show you some automatic tools you can use for this as well as blocking ADs on websites. The hosts file is a local plain text file that maps servers or hostnames to IP addresses. 127001 localhost 1 localhost.
The main ones are.
Domain Name System DNS servers are queried. Files usually come first means etchosts DNS is one of them it usually follows files but there are a lot more different name resolution services and strategies available. Additionally comments such as these may be inserted on individual lines or following the machine name denoted by a symbol. In addition a Hosts file can coexist with DNS.