Ah... ok. Many thanx..
So it more or less locally stores the host name and it's respective IP?
So in that case could you set the IP of a hostname to something else and thus redirect it?
E.g.
IPofAltavista www.google.com
That means one could still access the site by entering the IP instead of it's url.
Sorry but I have to stay true to my [descriptive] name...