Pretty much every operating system has a hosts file. In that file, you can define a hostname and then set a target IP. In Windows, that file is called hosts.txt and located in %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\. By default, that %systemroot% is going to be C:\Windows. This makes the path to the file C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt. By default, you’ll see the following: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback ::1 localhost When you edit the file, add a new line with the IP address then a tab then the hostname that you’d like to be able to ping to get the address in question. For example, to add server.krypted.com to point to 192.168.210.210, you’d add some lines to make…
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Host Defined
You may hear me use the word host a lot. When I say host I mean a computer that is connected to a network. Depending on the environment, the host can provide centralized control of the network or be a client, a server, both a client and a server, etc.