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Hosts file edit taking a long time to work?

Whenever I add an entry to the Hosts file on Windows, it takes a long time for the change to take place? I have tested using Firefox and IE and it seems to take around 5 minutes on both of them before the new IP/Domain entry on Hosts is recognised.

Is there anything I can do to overcome this? Perhaps "refreshing" the cache in some way? ipconfig /flushdns doesn't work.

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You have to close all browser windows after you edited the hosts file. (Make sure all IE processed are quit).

Jeroen  2010-08-05 15:56:19

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