Windows 10: There was an error while attempting to read the local hosts file

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While going through the Windows Event Viewer logs, we came across an entry that said – There was an error while attempting to read the local hosts file, Event ID 1012. Now, you may know that the Hosts file on your computer is used by the Windows operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses. […]

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Browser /connection security, hosts file and DNS service

You're saying that Open DNS(and other services like it) house their own list of known 'bad' sites, and by using their DNS servers, it will filter out sites based on that list?

Would you believe I was already using Open DNS servers.
This means the hosts file is moot?

And furthering that, if there's any bespoke sites I want to manually add, I could do it through my router directly.

Thus I can empty my local hosts file and turn my DNS service back on?

 

How frequently does Windows read the hosts file?

Hello all,

I'm adding an extensive list of IPs to our work-from-home staffs' Windows hosts file. How frequently does Windows read the hosts file? Meaning, when I make changes to the hosts file, when will Windows read the file to get the new DNS entries?

History: Our work-from-home users occasionally have trouble accessing network resources. We have discovered at certain times the user's ISP DNS servers take priority over our VPN DNS profile and cannot resolve our internal IPs. I'm trying to prevent this
by adding our internal domain resources to the Windows hosts file in order to force DNS to our domain over their ISP DNS.

Any feedback, suggestions or alternative methods are welcome. Thank you, Lewis.

 

Hosts file editing

I have to jump in and say I use, and have used the host file for years. It's an easy way to take stress off of old name servers. I don't add everything, but major shares I do add to the host file. I've used the host file for some tunneling as well. I try to optimize my network as much as possible and I have a solid network. But Easy Rhino is right as well, you'll want to have everything he suggested as well. *Toast :toast: