Vnc Viewer not reading host file

[James Weatherall]

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Murphy [mailto:mmurphy72 "at" gmail.com] 
> Sent: 10 May 2007 19:35
> To: James Weatherall
> Subject: Re: Vnc Viewer not reading host file
> 
> ok, how about the error 'unable to resolve host by name: No 
> such host is known (11001)'
> 
> 
> I really do not understand why it is not working as it works 
> on my partners and three other peoples computers.all using 
> the same hostfile i am using.  They are able to type in just 
> the host names for other programs AS WELL AS vnc viewer.  It 
> just does not seem to work on mine.  I can type hostnames 
> that i have assigned in the hosts file into my ftp program 
> and it works fine.    Just not with vnc viewer.   Now I have 
> taken my hosts file and copied to 3 other peoples computers 
> that also use vnc free edition viewer and everything works 
> fine.  I just don't understand what settings are wrong on my pc. 
> 
> Thanks again.