April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
4h 16m
English
One of the easiest ways to manipulate the direction of the traffic remotely is to play with DNS records. Each operating system contains a host file in order to statically map hostnames to specific IP addresses. The host file is a plain text file, which can be easily rewritten as long as we have admin privileges. For now, let's have a quick look at the host file in the Windows operating system.
In Windows, the file will be located under C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc. Let's have a look at the contents of the host file:

If you read the description, you will see that each entry should be located on a separate ...