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Feb 8, PM. More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: spraguga spraguga. I need to make some changes to this file on a few of my clients machines but want to understand what these are first. Your loopback interface. No idea why it is done like that. Maybe someone got tired of writing It's possible to run different services on Find More Posts by chort.

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Search Blogs. Mark Forums Read. User Name. Improve this answer. Sirch Sirch 5, 4 4 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. So I should include the following in my hosts file? Yes, you should keep both the ipv4 and ipv6 localhost addresses — Sirch. Here's another reason you should keep both on Windows: Fix Google Chrome slow or hanging resolving host — Tore Nestenius.

You didn't mention which OS you are using. This is even explicitly mentioned in that very same file: localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself. Massimo Massimo Where can I find the DNS settings which handles localhost name resolution? Best regards. John Gardeniers John Gardeniers 27k 12 12 gold badges 52 52 silver badges bronze badges. I was curious about Ended up cleaning things up a bit to include You also need to consider that a hosted environment, even an unmanaged one, will have certain requirements for monitoring purposes, which is another reason to be cautious of modifying things like the hosts file.

Thanks, that was definitely a typo. I will keep what you said about monitoring in mind, hadn't thought about that! Alexander Alexander 2 2 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Peter White Peter White 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.