Mozillat trashing host file

[Daniel Sichel]

Upon return, when she tries to go to her specified homepage, it

instead

tries to access the hotel's (I'm assuming here) proxy or autorization
server - no, no proxy settings set.
The hotel DHCP probably over wrote your hosts or DNS resolver file. On
Slackware that would be /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf

As a standard part of our laptop windblose install we pre populate the
host file with the business related entries we need (no arp cache
poisoning please) then make the host rile read only. You'd be amazed at
the headaches this simple prescaution prevents.

Dan Sichel
Network Engineer
Ponderosa Telephone
***@ponderosatel.com [phone]

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[Rob]

Post by Daniel Sichel
As a standard part of our laptop windblose install we pre populate the
host file with the business related entries we need (no arp cache
poisoning please) then make the host rile read only. You'd be amazed at
the headaches this simple prescaution prevents.
Dan Sichel
Network Engineer
Ponderosa Telephone

How does a locked down host file prevent arp cache poisoning,
or do you mean dns cache poisoning?
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