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Windows Batch: How to add Host-Entries?

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I would do it this way, so you won’t end up with duplicate entries if the script is run multiple times. @echo off SET NEWLINE=^& echo. FIND /C /I “ns1.intranet.de” %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 ECHO %NEWLINE%^62.116.159.4 ns1.intranet.de>>%WINDIR%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts FIND /C /I “ns2.intranet.de” %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 ECHO %NEWLINE%^217.160.113.37 ns2.intranet.de>>%WINDIR%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts FIND /C /I “ns3.intranet.de” %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts … Read more

Force fact-gathering on all hosts

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Ansible version 2 introduced a clean, official way to do this using delegated facts (see: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_delegation.html#delegated-facts). when: hostvars[item][‘ansible_default_ipv4′] is not defined is a check to ensure you don’t check for facts in a host you already know the facts about — # This play will still work as intended if called with –limit “<host>” or … Read more

Why does Microsoft Edge open some local websites, but not others, where the domain name is routed to 127.0.0.1 in hosts file

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Your network can block loopback as a security measure in Windows 10. Open a command prompt as administrator, and run this to exempt Edge from a loopback: CheckNetIsolation LoopbackExempt -a -n=”Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe” (Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe is the identifier for the Edge app) There’s a blog post here giving more detail: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/msgulfcommunity/2015/07/01/how-to-debug-localhost-on-microsoft-edge/

How to add more than one machine to the trusted hosts list using winrm

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I prefer to work with the PSDrive WSMan:\. Get TrustedHosts Get-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts Set TrustedHosts provide a single, comma-separated, string of computer names Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value ‘machineA,machineB’ or (dangerous) a wild-card Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value ‘*’ to append to the list, the -Concatenate parameter can be used Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value ‘machineC’ -Concatenate

Can I edit an iPad’s host file?

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The previous answer is correct, but if the effect you are looking for is to redirect HTTP traffic for a domain to another IP there is a way. Since it technically is not answering your question, I have asked and answered the question here: How can I redirect HTTP requests made from an iPad?