Are you a developer who wants to test changes to their website before making them live? Or do you want to block access to certain websites on your home network? A simple search on the internet will ...

The hosts file is the first place Windows checks for IP addresses when connecting to websites and can be manually edited to block access to specific websites. The hosts file is located in ...

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Hi just had a quick question. I'm running gnome as my GUI. When I login I get a message telling me that my /etc/hosts file can not find my ip address for my machine (or something like that). The GUI ...

Hello, I'm trying to restrict people on the network to a specific host. I was wondering if i could use the hosts.deny file to do this. Its redhat btw....any how say i wanted to deny web access to say: ...