Was working in a local Dr. Office who is no longer paying a subscription/maintenance on their software since I am now taking care of supporting them. All of a sudden, without warning, their software required activation. I have saved the activation file for the server but this time it didn’t work to just put the file back. Turns out it was connecting back to their activation server. I ended up tracking down the solution with…
c:\>ipconfig /displaydns
Windows IP Configuration
activate.softwareco.com
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Record Name . . . . . : activate.softwareco.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 601260
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 8.8.8.8
c:\>
At this point I knew that it was resolving “activate.softwareco.com”. I simply added the following line to the hosts file and the server no longer checks for activation and my LEGIT license file still works!
127.0.0.1 activate.softwareco.com
