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Generally used to block unwanted connections.

Can be used to remove advertising.

• I use https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

  • https://blogs.msmvps.com/hostsnews/
  • https://mvpshostsnews.blogspot.com/

When I locally-hosted a MediaWiki installation, setting this all to the computer’s network IP was important for various weird Apache rules to work without stupid errors. It also let me ban localhost and such to force me to use the complete URLs.

Linux ∞

(Linux)

• It is /etc/hosts

An example hosts file:

127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.10    example.dyndns.org

Windows ∞

(Windows)

• In Windows XP, it is C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

• In Windows 10, it is C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

An example hosts file:

localhost	    192.168.1.10
127.0.0.1           192.168.1.10
example.dyndns.org  192.168.1.10