How do I create a IP DNS table on my windows XP computer? I would like to be able to do this so that I don't always have to search the DNS server for a IP address of a URL. This would speed things up, when searching the web.

Well I don't really agree...true it may not help that much more, but you didn't ask for process opinion, did you?

I've had my share of DNS issues from my high seed provider over time to know thae value of locl DNS entries.

The file you are lookign for is called hosts, it has no extention.

It's usually in the windows/system32/drivers/etc folder

open it in notepad. save as ascii not text. NO EXTENTION, use save not save as...

At the end of the the file you can do as such...

65.121.25.61 www.gary.net

45.41.250.121 www.coleman.org

your pc will then resolve to your file first then use dns if the entry is not found. This method comes in handy when building dynamic sites on your lan....