[SATLUG] Would modifying hosts file affect DNS entries?

[Brad Knowles]

On 9/2/07, Eric Haugen wrote:

>                     When I  told another administrator at work what I wanted
>  to do he said not to because it would screw up the DNS.  Is this true?

Nope.

It might cause problems in other areas, and in their limited 
experience they might equate that with "screwing up the DNS", but 
these are two totally unrelated ways to serve up the kind of 
information in question, and come from totally unrelated sources.

>                                                                          I
>  couldn't see how because it would only be on the users local machine would
>  query the file.  Blocking these sites at the firewall/DNS server is not an
>  option because there are some users with legitimate reasons to go to these
>  sites.

You could always use a filtering proxy that allows certain 
authenticated users to get through, but blocks everyone else.  Those 
shouldn't be too hard to set up.

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