On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:57:18 +0100, Java Jive wrote:
It's probably more that the network services more generally don't respect
the hosts file until they are restarted. Does hosts get respected after a
reboot?
I think Firefox has a dns cache expiration which I need
to set to zero before it will "reread" the DNS cache...
See:
At what point does Firefox read/reread the hosts file?
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...?f=7&t=2565953
That file talks about the setting "network.dnsCacheExpiration"
which I will play with but the main problem is to stop
Firefox from going to rogue web sites first.