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Is it possible to assign certain domain names to a local machine on my
network within Windows? Could I edit my DNS cache manually or
something?

Trevor
 
Is it possible to assign certain domain names to a local machine on my
network within Windows? Could I edit my DNS cache manually or
something?

Trevor
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What do you mean? You can set a machine to use whatever DNS servers you
want (as long as they are real DNS servers, of course). If you want to
make a workstation a member of a domain network, you'll need to have a
server operating system on one of the machines.

Please explain what you are trying to do and what you end goal is so you
can get focused help.

Malke
 
Is it possible to assign certain domain names to a local machine on my
network within Windows? Could I edit my DNS cache manually or
something?

Trevor
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I'm not sure what you want to do. Do you want all computers on your network
to look at a local pc when you type in a url or computer name. If this is
what you are trying to do you could add an entry to the hosts file. Normally
it's in the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc folder. Here are a couple of
examples.

192.168.0.102 www.GoHereInsteadOfThere.com
192.168.0.102 server.GoHereInsteadOfThere.com

All requests to those locations will be directed to the pc at 192,168.0.102
and bypass dns. This would have to be done on all pc's on the network. It
gets quite cumbersome and is not the recommended practice. If you need to do
this you should look at setting up your own internal DNS server.
 
Malke said:
What do you mean? You can set a machine to use whatever DNS servers you
want (as long as they are real DNS servers, of course). If you want to
make a workstation a member of a domain network, you'll need to have a
server operating system on one of the machines.

Please explain what you are trying to do and what you end goal is so you
can get focused help.

Malke
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Of course. some viruses modify this file (lmhost) to a point where all
entries are 127.0.0.1 so once they hit you with a virus, you cannot find
the real anti-virus server.
 
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