Many soft found use the name 127.0.0.1 to block some address on the internet. Against spying, adds, phone home and so on... But on many webpage they say you should use 0.0.0.0 instead because; Using 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 is indeed faster because you don't have to wait for a timeout. It also does not interfere if you are running a web server on the local PC. If you use 0.0.0.0, you may want to add this entry just before your first 0.0.0.0 "blocking" entry: # Special Entries 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 # fix for trace-route and net-stat display anomaly Without that entry, some network status and diagnostic apps will use the host-name associated with your first 0.0.0.0 "blocking" entry as the name of the default IP address. Others say that 127.0.0.1 is the best. I did tested here on my pc and see it also really works with 0.0.0.0. I want to know what the specialists here on MDL think about this! Thanks in advance for your post!!
I have one machine where '0' doesn't work, but '127' does. As best I can tell, it is because that one machine has IIS (Internet Information Server) running and it has something to do with the way it utilizes DNS.
Code: netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=0.0.0.0 I think that might do it. in case of oops stuff Code: netsh http delete iplisten ipaddress=0.0.0.0
Thanks efa11!! Is it really necessary to add this line as they say? # Special Entries 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 # fix for trace-route and net-stat display anomaly And what this line is exactly doing? So here i also can add 0 0 instead, if i understand you good.