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Old April 26th 16, 09:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Etal
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Default Blocking google adversizing, twitter, fecebook using hosts-fileentries

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

writes:

98 Guy menulis:


127.0.0.1 localhost

# ALWAYS make sure "127.0.0.1 localhost" is the first line
in your # /hosts file or your system or browser may
malfunction!


Good work dude.... thanks


Agreed.

I read somewhere that 127.0.0.0 is faster (or something) than
127.0.0.1, so I have that for all the lines in my hosts file -
except the localhost one. It seems to work fine; whether any
faster or slower, I'm not sure.


the slowdown is possibly only an issue when using Win8.1
(and newer WinNT versions).

They use(d) "0.0.0.0" in the [hosts] file you can get at:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Reason given was that ms had made changes in the TCP
loopback interface in Win8.1 causing a slowdown issue. /Nota
bene/ they list a few 3rdParty programs that has issues with this
unexpected redirection.


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