Anyone who has had to deal with VPN access knows it can be a pain, but one of the more frustrating aspects is having services stop working, or losing access to local (internal) sites, particularly those which use hostname URLs. There is a way to fix this, and it requires using the hosts file. “But […]
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Editing Your Hosts File
Here’s a reference page on how to add items to your hosts file. Adding items to your hosts file allows you to set up a sort of “local DNS” to access sites even when your DNS server doesn’t know how to get to them, this is often used in development. Note that you need administrator […]