Problem with the hosts file under windows 7
- by martani_net
I updated some entries in the hosts file "C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc" to make google for example point to 127.0.0.1
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 google.com
This works fine under windows Vista, but not under Widows 7. When I type google, it goes directly to Google's website.
For info, I am not using a proxy server.
I think there are some temporary DNS settings that must be flushed, but I don't know how, anyone knows how to fix this?
Thank you.