# Updates # 09/21/12 – Revised Windows instructions to properly open Notepad with Admin rights # 05/20/12 – Updated OS detection interface

When you visit a website, your computer has to look up the IP address for that site so that it knows where to go. Before your computer goes out to find the IP address, it will first check the local hosts file. The hosts file on your computer is a plain text file that contains a map of hostnames to IP addresses.

If you wanted to override the actual IP address of a site, you could ‘trick’ your computer by More >