Vnc Viewer not reading host file

[James Weatherall]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for letting us know.  It sounds like DNS lookup was taking priority
over hosts file lookup, and the DNS server was reporting "definitely not a
resolvable name", so that Windows wouldn't then bother falling back to
hosts.  I can't say I've ever seen such behaviour myself, though!

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd


> By the way, it works for the personal addition as well since 
> i have disabled the DNS client.
> 
> 
> On 5/10/07, Michael Murphy < mmurphy72 "at" gmail.com 
> <mailto:mmurphy72 "at" gmail.com> > wrote:
> 
> 	Well I finally got it working.  I thank you for all 
> your help with everything and I am sorry for taking up your 
> time.   I disabled DNS client and now everything is working 
> smooth as a top.   
> 	
> 	Thanks again for all your help. 
> 	
> 	
> 	On 5/10/07, James Weatherall < jnw "at" realvnc.com 
> <mailto:jnw "at" realvnc.com> > wrote:
> 	
> 
> 		Hi Michael,
> 		
> 		If resolving the names you've specified in the 
> hosts file works for other
> 		applications on the same computer then it'll 
> work for VNC Viewer - VNC
> 		Viewer just uses the normal name-lookup APIs to 
> get the host address. 
> 		
> 		The only possibility I can think of is that 
> your computer has a trashed
> 		network stack, in which case completely 
> removing & reinstalling all
> 		networking components would fix it, but that's 
> a long shot. 
> 		
> 		Cheers,
> 		
> 		Wez @ RealVNC Ltd