How to restore connection with hosts file? Mike Gale 5/3/2007 9:40:00 PM Hi, I tested something called Tor yesterday. (Inter alia it also installs software called Privoxy.) This on a development Win 2003 server. After testing it I found that entries in the hosts file appeared to be ignored. I then uninstalled all the test components, expected to get back to normal. Unfortunately hosts still appears not to be "connected". I've subsequently found that there are issues between Privoxy and hosts. (But no details are how to reverse any problems.) How do I check and re-instate the normal hosts file functionality?

Re: How to restore connection with hosts file? "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> 5/4/2007 7:00:16 PM Read inline please. In news:47B8EA7A-97CE-406B-88A2-DBC2414D44FF[ at ]microsoft.com, Mike Gale <MikeGale[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> typed: [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > I tested something called Tor yesterday. (Inter alia it also installs > software called Privoxy.) This on a development Win 2003 server. > > After testing it I found that entries in the hosts file appeared to be > ignored. > > I then uninstalled all the test components, expected to get back to > normal. > > Unfortunately hosts still appears not to be "connected". > > I've subsequently found that there are issues between Privoxy and > hosts. (But no details are how to reverse any problems.) > > How do I check and re-instate the normal hosts file functionality? When you run ipconfig /displaydns does it display the contents of the hosts file? (Run ipconfig /flushdns command first to make sure cached lookups are cleared. -- Best regards, Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] Hope This Helps Send IM: http://www.icq.com/people/webmsg.php?to=296095728 =================================== When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue, to respond directly to me remove the nospam. from my email address. =================================== http://www.lonestaramerica.com/ http://support.wftx.us/ http://message.wftx.us/ =================================== Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix: It will strip signature out and more http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ =================================== Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders with OEBackup: http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx ===================================

RE: How to restore connection with hosts file? Mike Gale 5/4/2007 9:17:02 PM Thanks Kevin. I ran commands as suggested. What I get is as follows: 1) A very short list, considerably shorter than what's in my hosts. 2) Those listed are in hosts. 3) I found one server that was duplicated (in both). I deleted the duplicate in hosts, and it also disappeared in the ipconfig... listing. I also went through add/remove programs to check that the items installed by Tor were gone. They were. (These were Tor, Vidalia and Privoxy, I suspect the last of these.)

Re: How to restore connection with hosts file? Mike Gale 5/8/2007 4:45:08 AM Thanks for your time on this. I was initially thrown off by displaydns not listing the whole hosts file. When I investigated other issues I eventually solved this. It's a firewall issue. Firewall off, problem goes away.