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I have some name address that i want to send straight to the void using the HOSTS file but i don't want to use the 127.0.0.1. How can i do that?.

Why?, I want to speed up some proccess but 127.0.0.1 is serving a webserver, so if i use 127.0.0.1 then this process will call my webserver, consuming resources and may be delaying the process.

Right now, i am using 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 but i am not sure if it is correct.

    0.0.0.0  crl.microsoft.com
magallanes
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Two things:

  • Is your web server listening on 127.0.0.2 as well?
  • 0.0.0.0 should be fine, though you're likely generating some short-lived network traffic with it.
Hyppy
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    Your first point was going to be my answer too. There are hundreds of loopback addresses, and only one of them is ever used in 99.99% of cases. – Mark Henderson Jun 11 '12 at 21:48
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    @MarkHenderson a bit more then hundreds. You have an entire `/8` there is 16,777,214 possible addresses. – Zoredache Jun 12 '12 at 00:00