[Wine] Does wine accepts "hosts" file?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 12:28:41 CST 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:30 AM, zetah <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> running wine-1.3.24 on Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit
>
> I noticed "..\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" file does not exist.
> Will it work as in Windows if I create one?
>
Wine does not provide Internet Services directly.  It uses Linux's
Internet services.  If you need to add a host that is not resolved by
a public DNS server, you have to add it to the Linux host file.

James



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