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I am testing on a private network and want to use Chrome to load a web page. There is no DNS access on that machine.

Chrome will not let me load the page because of something like "The server XXX can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed."

How can I stop Chrome from needing a successful DNS lookup?

I am giving it an IP address, not a name to be looked up.

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Chrome uses DNS caching and prefetching to speed load times. Here is a question about clearing the DNS cache. You can disable the cache by opening Settings->Advanced Settings->Privacy Settings and unchecking "Predict network actions to improve page load performance."

Alternatively, you can edit your hosts file to allow the DNS lookup to succeed. On a Windows machine, edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add a line containing the IP address and hostname (192.168.1.2 myhost.mydomain.com). On a Linux or Apple machine, edit /etc/hosts, adding the same info.

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