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> the Windows equivalent of /etc/hosts Which is, bizarrely, etc\hosts (somewhere in C:\Windows\). I've always wondered why they felt the need to make an 'etc'
by wolfgang42 9y ago
> the Windows equivalent of /etc/hosts
Which is, bizarrely, etc\hosts (somewhere in C:\Windows\). I've always wondered why they felt the need to make an 'etc' folder just to have the hosts file in it.
- inopinatus 9y agoSoftware historians differ on the degree to which the Windows NT 3.1 TCP/IP stack & utilities were derived from BSD, but it's one possible reason.
- kagamine 9y agoA very diplomatic way of putting it.
- notatoad 9y agoC:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and, if i remember correctly from my windows days, not only did they make the whole 'etc' folder just to put the hosts file in, the strangely-named 'drivers' folder didn't have anything else in it either.