[hyc]

The hosts file trick is, in general, an inadequate hack. Also I only gave that as an example for rtmpsrv. It cannot be used with rtmpsuck. (If the tcUrl in the connection request uses the same hostname, it will simply get into a loop trying to connect to itself.)

You need customizable filter/firewall software to perform a transparent redirect. I'm not aware of any freeware for Windows that does this. I have some code I wrote several years ago that will work on WindowsXP but from what I've read, it will not work on Windows7 because the network driver stack has changed. I haven't actively coded for Windows in several years and I'm not really interested in looking any further into it. Use an OS that doesn't suck.