<div>Sorry, no I meant with a space as thats how the hosts file is organised, it looks for an IP and name separated. In some games for example it "seems" to check its own hostname and then do a lookup on it, as counterintuitive as it sounds when it comes to the master servers. I've never tested that in cod/cod2 to see if its the same though, just wanted to give another avenue for thought.
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<div>It shouldn't lock you out whatever as a quick temp test (copy, then replace if wanted). Just generally don't have <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> missing etc, but I'm distracting again. If you don't feel comfortable doing it, definitely don't.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike @ The Hanger</b> <<a href="mailto:mike@hanger.org.uk">mike@hanger.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">You mean add a line in hosts like this? <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://88.208.200.17.va-world.com/" target="_blank">
88.208.200.17.va-world.com</a>? The only thing I am thinking here is if I do that and it doesnt work then I could lock myself out of the server but not sure so i'm not gonna try. Im sure the problem must lay somewhere else.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Maybe someone else that has a working hosted linux server could tell me what is in there hosts file? Or maybe someone might spot something wrong with the output I get.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Cheers</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">(Off to bed now to grow my hair back, please feel free to reply to this with any more help)</font></span></div>
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