Having an issue with windows 7 host file not working properly. I have a site to site vpn setup with another company. I put it in the internet address given to me to access an internal website. I have no other problems with the exception of this windows 7 workstation. I am unable to ping or access the address that i am putting in the host file. I rebuilt the host file, still did nothing. I copied the host file from another windows 7 box still nothing. I rebuilt the tcp/ip stack still nothing. Is there anything else i can try to see if the host file is indeed working?

the host file is working fine for me. I added some entries to block ads and it works on my Windows 7 Ultimate."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Make sure that you did not save this file with an extention. The file's name should remain as "HOSTS" with no extention. Should work as expected. As soon as you enter data into the "HOSTS" file and save it, the entries will appear in your DNS cache. you can view the dns cache by opening a command prompt and typing ipconfig /displaydns. Visit: anITKB.com, an IT Knowledge Base.

i also disabled ipv6, reset the tcp/ip stack again. Funny thing is if I do a ipconfig /displaydns it is showing the host entry. Though i can not ping or connect to it. I have 10 other machines that are setup identical and not having this issue.

When you PING it by name, does it show the IP resolved in the command prompt? If so and you are seeing the error "Request Timed Out" or "Destination Host Unreachable", then it is not a name resolution problem. If the error message is "Ping request cannot find..." then the problem is likely to be name resolution related.Visit: anITKB.com, an IT Knowledge Base.

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Well it was interesting it came down to the ip address. For whatever reason it would allow an address below the .100 class c that we use.