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Go up to section 1 of this answer and follow the directions to check if it's working now.Click OK to close the hosts Properties window.

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If a Windows Security alert box pops up, choose Yes to continue.

Select Users, and ensure Read & execute is checked in the Allow column.

If Users is not present, click Add., type Users, click Check Names, and click OK or press Enter.

If Users is not present, or is present but does not have Read permission, click Edit.

If %COMPUTERNAME%\Users is present, click on it to view permissions.

Examine the list of names in the Group or user names: box.

In the hosts Properties window, click on the Security tab.

Right-click on the hosts file and select Properties from the context menu.

If you can't see the hosts file, ensure you can see hidden and system files.

Navigate to %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc in Windows Explorer.

The local Users account must be able to read the hosts file. Last point is important: Copying works, moving doesn't.

Copy ( do not move) the file to your %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc directory, and overwrite the old file.

Save the new text file and rename it to hosts.

Copy and paste the contents of your current hosts file into this file in Notepad.Create a new text file on your desktop.To recreate the file with default permissions: Sometimes there are issues with permissions on the file, the file attributes, and similar things. Which should display something similar to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ParametersĭataBasePath REG_EXPAND_SZ %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc Or, in a Command Prompt window, type: reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters -v DataBasePath The entry should be: %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc The key is: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath Supposedly, Windows doesn't actually support putting the hosts file in other locations, but you might want to check. There is a registry key specifying the location of the hosts file. Lastly, terminate the file with a blank line. To be on the safe side, make sure all lines in your hosts file either use tabs or spaces, not both. In theory hosts supports multiple spaces separating the two columns, but it's another thing to try if nothing else works. If you copied and pasted hosts entries from somewhere, you may end up with multiple spaces. Notepad++ will also show special characters (View -> Show Symbol) so you can easily inspect the number and kind of whitespace characters. The individual bytes may be viewed in Notepad++ with the hex editor plugin. Sample entries, using Unicode control pictures to indicate control characters.

then finally a carriage return followed by a line feed, (escape codes \r\n, ASCII CRLF, hex 0x0d 0x0a).

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The format for each line is IP address, then a horizontal tab (escape code \t, ASCII HT, hex 0x09) or a single space (hex 0x20), then the host name, ie. Did you take care of all variants ( and - safest to just add both)?.Did you follow the correct syntax? Did you accidentally prefix lines with a hash ( #) which indicates comments?.Is the extension correct? It should have no extension ( hosts not hosts.txt) - be careful if you have configured windows to hide known extensions, check the properties to be sure: The correct hosts file's type will show up as just "File".Is your hosts file named correctly? It should be hosts and not host, etc.See NSLOOKUP and NBLOOKUP give one IP address PING finds another 2. NB: nslookup does not look at the hosts file. You can check the current data in the DNS cache with: ipconfig /displaydns | more If yes, your hosts file is fine and the problem is elsewhere.Īlso, you can reset the NetBios cache with (open the console as an admin or it will fail): nbtstat -R To check if it works, use (assuming you have an ipv4 entry in your hosts for or an ipv6 entry in your hosts for ): ping -4 -n 1Īnd see if it uses the correct IP. Open a command line (Windows+R, cmd, Enter) and type: ipconfig /flushdns Did you check that it works correctly?Ĭhanges to hosts should take effect immediately, but Windows caches name resolution data so for some time the old records may be used. Based on my own experience and what I encountered while Googling, here are some things to try: 1.