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stp to speed up surfing(map mach. IP to any host
when u type web addrs in location bar ur browser start search machine redable IP adrs so it can communicate with host.ie browser can't communicate with host without IP address. so 4 the search,the browser 1st contact Primary DNS server,if it doesn't show many match it contact another DNS server somwhere on internet if match is found on secondery server then primary sever updates its database ,so it doesn't contact sec. server 4 the same.

soooooo a lot of time is wasted in above process & it also slow down srfing process when browser contact the DNS server and perform the search. so to eliminate this problm we can map machines ip to any host by editng host file in

c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (open in notepad)
c:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
& FOR LINUX :-/etc/hosts

a host file looks somthng like:-
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# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
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eg.if u know IP adrs of yahoo.com is 123.xxx.yyy.zzz,so add the line
123.xxx.yyy.zzz www.yahoo.com in HOST FILE now ur browser will not make any search
& will straightway make ip comunication with host. ie now ur browser will contact faster to yahoo.com.