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Local host file not resolving correctly

22 December 2009 | windows | No Comments

We recently re-built a machine with a fresh copy of Windows that had issues resolving names listed in the local host file. All of the entries matched the ones that were on PCs that were able to resolve them. We made sure that the file had no extension listed, and it didn’t. We even copied over a file from a machine that worked thinking something may have happened to the file itself. However, nothing we did worked.

After some searching around, I came across an entry that stated that the Network Service account needs rights to the host file. I verified that the DNS service running on the machine was indeed the Network Service account (which it was), and gave the account rights to the file.

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Once I made the change, the entries inside the host file started resolving properly.

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