does anyone maintain a Hosts file especially for Thailand ?notebook couldn't boot and had to do a recovery from an old backup

IIRC "in.th" was one extension that I blocked

A host files has nothing to do with Thailand and is just a leftover of the old days when there was no DNS

A standard host file looks like this:

# Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

#

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

#

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should

# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.

# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one

# space.

#

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual

# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.

#

# For example:

#

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

Purpose of a host file:

The hosts file is one of several system facilities to assist in addressing network nodes in a computer network. It is a common part in a operating system's Internet Protocol (IP) implementation, and serves the function of translating human-friendly hostnames into numeric protocol addresses, called IP addresses, that identify and locate a host in an IP network.

Hope this will help you

M.

Go over to mvps.org and do a search for hosts file.

I want to block certain sites; at the moment I have the following; 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 sf.in.th 127.0.0.1 sf.gg.in.th 127.0.0.1 www.laghaim.co.th 127.0.0.1 www.prontera.in.th 127.0.0.1 *.in.th

Add the following line to your HOSTS file...

127.0.0.1  w3.mict.go.th

Maybe is this what your looking for.

Add the following line to your HOSTS file...

127.0.0.1  w3.mict.go.th