Forcing a domain name with the hosts file

Last update on August 16, 2009 02:58 PM by jak58
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[Networks]Forcing a domain name with the hosts file







Intro


The hosts file primarily allow you to manually set the IP address for a host present on the network spotted by a domain name.


Locating the hosts file


For Windows based systems: 
C:\WINXP\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
C:\WINDOWS\hosts


For Linux based system:

The file is located in: 

/etc/hosts



The hosts file will contains lines starting with #, except for: 
127.0.0.1 localhost


This may be accompanied by other names on Linux based system.

This line means that hostname is localhost 127.0.0.1

In the same way, it is possible to define the name of the machine corresponding to Kioskea. www.kioskea.net

Tips


Redirect to 127.0.0.1 all the websites you want to filter.
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