{"id":1139,"date":"2020-01-10T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T03:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1139"},"modified":"2020-01-10T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T03:24:31","slug":"how-to-add-a-dns-entry-manually-to-a-windows-computer","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-add-a-dns-entry-manually-to-a-windows-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a DNS entry manually to a Windows Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At times you may be required to add a manual DNS entry to your Windows PC in order to override your DNS settings<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1 &#8211;\u00a0Open Notepad as an Administrator<\/h3>\n<p>For example in Windows 10 click on Start, Type in <strong>Notepad<\/strong>, Right Click and choose <strong>Run as Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Step 2 &#8211;\u00a0Browse to and open the Host File<\/h3>\n<p>c:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts.file<\/p>\n<h3>Step 3 &#8211;\u00a0Add in the required entry in the format of Ip Addresss &gt; TAB &gt; DNS Name<\/h3>\n<p>For example:\u00a0 1.2.3.4\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 dropbox.com<\/p>\n<h3>Step 4<\/h3>\n<p>Save the file<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Add Entry to Hosts File\" width=\"699\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Acuiojp_Vs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At times you may be required to add a manual DNS entry to your Windows PC in order to override your DNS settings Step 1 &#8211;\u00a0Open Notepad as an Administrator For example in Windows 10 click on Start, Type in Notepad, Right Click and choose Run as Administrator Step 2 &#8211;\u00a0Browse to and open the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[452,444],"article-tag":[753],"class_list":["post-1139","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-10","article-category-windows-how-to","article-tag-add-local-dns-hosts-file"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":21,"sum_votes":78},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}