On Wed, 18 May 2005, Randy Clarksean wrote: > But, I tried putting in the IP addy in the hosts table like shown below and > it did not work. > > 192.168.1.19 63.98.3.64:8080 > > Does the hosts table not like to redirect for IP addies rather than names? > Just curious so I can learn why it works the way it does. It just maps IP's to names and vice-versa. You can't map IP to IP, and you can't specify a port like that. It's just poor man's DNS...