2014-01-27, 04:47
(2014-01-27, 01:49)bramwell Wrote: Well, I checked my hosts file for 8.1 and it still has the ip addition that I made. It still doesn't seem to work. Hmm. weird.It is very easy to check if you enter it in hosts file correctly or not
Open a DOS cmd prompt and type ping nlsk.neulion.com . If there is a reply from 192.241.136.149 then you entered it OK.
Code:
C:\ping nlsk.neulion.com
Pinging nlsk.neulion.com [192.241.136.149] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.241.136.149: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=51
Reply from 192.241.136.149: bytes=32 time=118ms TTL=51
Reply from 192.241.136.149: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 192.241.136.149: bytes=32 time=83ms TTL=51
Ping statistics for 192.241.136.149:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 32ms, Maximum = 118ms, Average = 83ms
By default, Windows hide the file extension and you might save it to the hosts.txt instead of hosts file. You can check the box 'File name extensions' of the View menu of File Explorer.