Johnnybundles
Technical User
I have a newish Vista pc, I have tried to keep other HOSTS files tidy in Win2k XP. Now I want to do the same in Vista.
I appear to have two HOSTS files. Can anyone tell me why, and can one of them be removed?
I presume the one in the etc file is the right one, but what is the other?
File 1 is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
File 2 is in C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-w..nfrastructure-other_ + a long sequence of numbers
The content of both files is almost identical, the etc file has a single change I put in it, in order to view a site that had not propagated yet.
Plus....
One other question?
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
What is the above line ::1 for?
Thanks in advance.
JB
I appear to have two HOSTS files. Can anyone tell me why, and can one of them be removed?
I presume the one in the etc file is the right one, but what is the other?
File 1 is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
File 2 is in C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-w..nfrastructure-other_ + a long sequence of numbers
The content of both files is almost identical, the etc file has a single change I put in it, in order to view a site that had not propagated yet.
Plus....
One other question?
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
What is the above line ::1 for?
Thanks in advance.
JB