[thelist] Win2K: Changing "localhost"

[Hassan Schroeder]

Frank wrote:

> Can someone offer some insight as to how I can rename my loopback to
> localhost that I may use 127.0.0.1 as my address again? It was inputted by
> a set-up wizard, I'm sure that there must be a setting somewhere for it.

Try looking in your install root for the hosts file; my path is:

	C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

You may need a reboot to have changes made there take effect.

HTH!
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