Firefox Ignores My Hosts File

Hi all. This one is a little technical, so bear with me: I have a few computers in my setup, one of them being a server with Apache. That computer's name is "library" and I have input the IP and the name in my Windows' HOSTS file. For the longest time, I only had to type ";http://library" in Firefox and presto, I got on my server. Now, for some odd reason, it automatically redirects me to some site (http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/default.asp).

Neither Safari nor IE does this. What's wrong here? Is my FF broken?

#525649

Maybe an ff add-on.

Also... is this server sharing internet to the other machines? because you could do that, use dnsmasq for dns proxy-server and tell it to resolve library and other names to their corresponding local network IPs, freeing you from the need to setup every machine's hosts file.

#525658

Well I thought about an addon, but I have none really, except Download Bar. And no this server is a test server, behind the gateway on the same level as my client machine...?

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