I just checked with someone I belive to be quite knowledgeable in the
MS world. I won't bother listing all his credentials.

Anyway, MS Server DNS does not query the hosts file during a dns
request. hosts files are used from the clients perspective..ie opening
up a browser session on a server is a client action, not server
service.

While making a list is possible, it would mean creating (A) host
records for all the places you don't want users to go
to..MANUALLY...in the dns file.

A bettter application would be to use squid for www proxy or one of
the many open-source third party soluitions like censornet
(http://www.censornet.com/) .

While I personally do not have experience with censornet, I have peers
of mine using with great success...for what it's worth.

- Don



On Apr 4, 2005 7:32 PM, ryanag at zoominternet dot net <ryanag at zoominternet dot net> wrote:
> Clear DNS cache. Might not be necessary....I don't know in what order
> server 2k3 looks at DNS entries.
> 
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:15 -0400, David Courtney wrote:
> > > I suspect, although I don't know for sure, but I believe it would work very
> > > like it does on a workstation.
> > >
> > > Drop the hosts file in the right location under /etc and reboot.
> >
> > What's the point of rebooting?
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