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If they have Active Directory or any other such thing then it's worth
setting up an internal DNS.

I despise Bing. So I had a host table entry on my laptop to route any Bing
stuff to Google. Apparently publicly posting that hack was a bad idea
because Microsoft figured out a way to bypass any host table entries not
long afterwards.

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 11:33 AM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are legitimate uses for host table entries. Like internal servers,
in shops where an internal DNS is more trouble than it's worth. Or
servers owned by others, that (for whatever reason) are not listed on
the public DNS system.

Or as a means of permanently blocking sites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, or various ad or clickbait servers that might waste one's
bandwidth) that one might be tricked into accessing against one's will,
by remapping them to "0.0.0.0".

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