IP Address to point to my computer

Factual Questions
1

Does anyone know what the IP Address is to point to your own machine.

I thought it was 127.00.0.1, but I don’t know if that’s right or not.

Thanks

2

Your own IP address may be anything it was assigned to.

For Windows 95/98 go to a command prompt and type WINIPCFG. For Windows NT type IPCONFIG. You’ll see your IP address listed.

3

Stevie, You are correct. 127.0.0.1 is in fact reserved as localhost. It’s used primarly for testing.

4

You can edit the HOSTS file in the WINDOWS directory. IE will go there first to find IPs. So I have some lines like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 image.eimg.com
127.0.0.1 leader.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1 ads.msn.com
127.0.0.1 ad.preferences.com

That means ads from those sites will not be displayed as they are searched in my own machine and not found.

5

I hate to pick nits, but just to clarify, TCP/IP, i.e. winsock in the case of Windows, uses the HOSTS file to resolve IP addresses from hostnames, so ANY TCP/IP application will therefore use it (Just in case one was wanting to install and test an FTP server program, for instance). If you want to use name resolution for NetBIOS (Windows Networking) applications, the LMHOSTS file will take care of that. Don’t forget to remove the “.txt” extension from these files if you use Notepad to edit them.