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How to confiure Firefox to not refer hosts file

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I'm using firefox on Win-7 I have host file entries that I do not want to alter. Can't even alter the name of host file temporarily. But then I don't want firefox to refer to the host file at all. I need it to go to the DNS directly.

Is there a way to make firefox skip the hostfile check & go to DNS or at the least lookup another equivalent file instead of hosts file

Please advise

I'm using firefox on Win-7 I have host file entries that I do not want to alter. Can't even alter the name of host file temporarily. But then I don't want firefox to refer to the host file at all. I need it to go to the DNS directly. Is there a way to make firefox skip the hostfile check & go to DNS or at the least lookup another equivalent file instead of hosts file Please advise

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Firefox simply passes the DNS request to the DNS Client service (Windows).

It is the DNS client that checks for an entry in the hosts file when it receives a DNS request, not Firefox.

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Ok .. Good piece of info ...... I think I cannot tweak DNS client service, but any suggestion as to how do I get Firefox requests to not ever peep in to the hosts file ??