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smartcaveman
Asked: 2011-06-11 16:43:30 +0800 CST

How to use the hosts file to make google.com resolve to bing.com on a single machine

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I am having a little trouble understanding how to manipulate the hosts file. I am using IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 RC2.

How can I make any requests from my machine to google.com resolve to bing.com?

windows domain-name-system iis-7 reverse-dns hosts-file

2 Answers

  1. Use nslookup to find an IP address for bing.com. Then add an entry in your hosts file that looks like:

    1.2.3.4 google.com www.google.com

    Replace the IP address with the IP you found for bing.com.

    Keep in mind, though, that there's not one IP address for any of these services that operate at a massive scale, so the IP address you're getting for bing.com or google.com today may not be in use tomorrow.

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  2. Best Answer

    Bing has the following IP: 65.55.175.254

    So it would be

    65.55.175.254 google.com www.google.com

    It will change the url due to redirection on bing's end.. nothing you can do about that

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