Whether people assumed I searched beforehand or not (which I did attempt), I did finally find out how to word the search.
It's highly unlikely, but if someone else happens to come across this forum post due to a problem like this, you have to modify your hosts file.
I did notice that you do not have to register anything if you do not plan on having online play (I haven't tested if this would work online). You just need to type the ip address, then afterward type what the name is supposed to be.
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.87 thisworkstoo.net #not a real dns, but still works on my lan
I can even ping this name for the ip from a machine with an altered hosts file, and the ping succeeds.
**OFF TOPIC**
BTW, is it possible to permit searching of 3-letter words? If a person is wanting to know about a lan or nat, they can't get very far due to this restriction (that, and not too many people would want to type local area network or network address translation when they can use these acronyms).
Last edited by kedobin; 03-16-2006 at 05:53 PM..
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