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Nullpt · Guest

Hello folks!

I'm having a problem with my Windows installation. My hosts, services,
networks and protocol database files (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc) are
not working.

The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters
key has the DataBasePath set to %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc. When I
echo this string in cmd it shows me the correct path.

Examples:

The hosts file contain:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost2
172.26.34.60 other

If i ping localhost it works because it's set in the registry (NV Hostname
string).

If I ping localhost2 it doesnt work, if I ping other it doesn't work either.
If I ping 172.26.34.60 it works.

The services file doesn't work either.

ftp 21/tcp #FTP. control

If I do "telnet 172.26.34.60 21" it works. If I do "telnet 172.26.34.60 ftp"
it doesn't work.

Does anyone have a clue on this one? Thanks for your help!

Matthew · Guest

Hi

my XP suddenly fails to resolve the hosts file, i check DataBasePath in
regedit is correct . Is your problem resolved ? If yes, do you mind share
the solutions with me?

Thanks! Matthew

kaleeswarans · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

I had the same problem. My problem was, my PC had two WINXP installations. The active windir was windows.0. So the hosts file to be used was actually c:\windows.0\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
-kali

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