Pinging one of the domains () in the hosts file continued responding from the ip associated with the domain on the name server where I have the domain registered.įor kicks, I restarted again, actually thinking I might see the hosts file disappear again. When there was no hosts file, I re-copied from the backup I had made to recreate the hosts file as it was before the problem arose. So, when I open terminal now, the history is for a different session than the one I was using for manipulating the hosts file. All I can say is the history appears to be kept separately for different tabs open to the same server. The way I have bash history (I run bash, not zsh) setup, I cannot always see what I ran. I cannot prove there was a hosts file present when I shutdown, but I thought there was. It is as if the hosts file is not there.Īfter the first restart, there was no hosts file. The problem now is I have some domains need to go to certain ips, but that is not happening. an from command line as root user: killall -HUP mDNSResponder.Copied /private/etc/hostsHOTROLL to /private/etc/hosts.The result did not perform as expected, so I wanted to roll back to what I had. ran from command line as root user: killall -HUP mDNSResponder.Copied /private/etc/hosts to /private/etc/hostsHOTROLL (to keep a backup of the hosts file).Created a file containing what I wanted in the hosts file as ~/hosts This file contained a copy of what was in the hosts file, with a long long list of domains like this 127.0.0.1 domain.tlc My intention was to block ads for all those domains.The result is the hosts file is now ignored. Still reading? I'll assume you're not familiar with this file then.Today, I tried changing the hosts file. If you've landed on this page from a search, there's a good idea you already know why you want to change the hosts file (and can go ahead and skip down the page to the "Making Changes" section of this article). If you're running Windows you can find instructions for your operating system here.
On Mac OS X the process is a little more complicated than simply opening a text file, adding some lines and saving it again but it's still easy enough for even complete newbies to do with little trouble. This is an important file and one that is under the computer administrator's control, so you'll need an account with full privileges to make any changes.
By adding or removing lines to your hosts file you can change where certain domains will point when you access them in a browser or using other software. The hosts file is used by your computer to map hostnames to IP addresses. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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