Hosts File is basically the file used by Microsoft Windows to map hostnames to IP addresses. In simple words, IP addresses can be given names like web addresses. For example, if you’ve hosted a local ...

Operating systems like Windows 7 have a special text file that is used locally to map IP address to domain or host names. This file is usually called the "hosts" file. The hosts file can be used to ...

A few weeks ago, this column introduced its first troubleshooting scenario in which you, the reader, were asked to follow along as I unravelled one of the many little system administration problems ...

How to remove or update a single entry from the SSH known_hosts file Your email has been sent SSH holds fingerprints of your remote machines in the known_hosts file. Sometimes you might need to remove ...