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**Paul** · 05-11-2005, 14:29

You can't do it on ntl, simple as that.

Requests for a domain are intecepted by the proxy - which does it's own dns lookup on the domain, so what's in your hosts file is irrelevnt, ignored. You could create a hosts file pointing every domain at 1.2.3.4 and web browsing would still work ......

* This only applies to http / port 80 requests. It will work as expected for https, or http on ports other than 80.

05-11-2005, 14:29	#5
Paul Dr Pepper Addict Cable Forum Admin Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Nottingham Age: 63 Services: Zen & YouFibre FTTP, Sky Q TV, Sky Mobile, Flextel SIP Posts: 31,334	Re: hosts file and NTL You can't do it on ntl, simple as that. Requests for a domain are intecepted by the proxy - which does it's own dns lookup on the domain, so what's in your hosts file is irrelevnt, ignored. You could create a hosts file pointing every domain at 1.2.3.4 and web browsing would still work ...... * This only applies to http / port 80 requests. It will work as expected for https, or http on ports other than 80. __________________ Baby, I was born this way.