When using the Internet most people connect to web sites, ftp servers or other Internet servers by connecting to a domain name, as in www.bleepingcomputer.com. Internet applications, though, do not ...

The hosts file is the first place Windows checks for IP addresses when connecting to websites and can be manually edited to block access to specific websites. The hosts file is located in ...

Before you begin using this tool, you have to enable the hidden administrator account on your Windows computer and open this app from that account only. As Windows Hosts file requires administrator ...

Domain Name Servers (DNS) bind the internet together. They match machine-usable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with human-readable domain names. It's the internet's equivalent of the phone book. But, while ...

If you have ever used a HOSTS file on your Windows computer, you might have seen the LMHOSTS file in the same directory where the HOSTS file is located. The HOSTS file is used to map IP host names to ...

Computers on the Internet address each other with numbers. What appears as computerworld.com to a human being is 65.221.110.98 to a computer. The system that translates between names and the ...