Or are you like me and get distracted by all the cat photos on the internet? Also, close the browser windows that are open and reopen them. The one downside is that this only works on one device — you could just reach for your phone and browse Reddit on that instead.
Still, it's a neat way to create some friction on your work computer. This leads nicely into the last trick, which is to use the hosts file to make your life a little bit easier. If you spend a lot of time adjusting your router's settings, or you have a cool project running on a Raspberry Pi , you'll know that typing in a long IP address is a drag.
Instead, you can use the hosts file to make connecting to other devices on your local network much faster. For example, if your router is at Otherwise your browser might not recognize. Fortunately there are a whole lot of valid TLDs nowadays. Again, the one downside to this method is that it only works on once device.
You'd have to update the hosts files on your other devices to enable the same shortcuts. And that should be just about everything you need to know about the hosts file on Windows And a lot of this knowledge should carry over to Linux and macOS.
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But knowing where it is and how it works can be helpful if: you're having trouble with local development you suspect malware has tampered with the hosts file you want a quick and simple way to block some websites or if you want to set up some helpful shortcuts to internal IP addresses In this article we'll cover what a hosts file is , how to edit it on Windows , and we'll go over some neat tricks you can do with it. What's a hosts file anyway? For example, here's a line you'll find in many hosts files on Windows, Linux, and macOs: Why hosts files fell out of favor The hosts files system worked well for the early internet, but there were a few major problems.
As you can imagine, hosts files would get complicated, fast. The solution If you're thinking that someone should have just made a central repository to map all IP addresses with all hostnames, that's exactly what happened. How to edit a hosts file on Windows To edit a hosts file on Windows 10, you'll need to open it as an administrator. The easiest way to accomplish this is by sshing yourself from the Jenkins master into the slave machine as jenkins user.
That, by the way, will serve as a verification of whether this kind of connection works first of all — Jose Haro Peralta. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Hope this helps. Improve this answer. Athul Nath 2, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. Binod Mathews Binod Mathews 4 4 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Goran Vasic Goran Vasic 1, 9 9 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. A very simple step helped me to recover this error.
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Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Thanks, Kalpesh Dalwadi B. Like: xxx. Maybe AVG recognized this and deleted the host. Another possibility is that permission to see the hosts file has been removed. Try another user account or create a new text file called hosts and see if it asks you to replace the hidden one.
How to install back to my lap top. The questions that you post are something for the tech support specialists of AVG. The most important thing to notice is the iyhthuo. Did you turn off hidden files so you can see everything? It could be hidden or even some kind of system file from the AVG program. Also see if you can reinstall the program or even repair it in you Add Remove Programs under your Control Panel.
Once again call tech support if all else fails but if you think you can do it nothing against your expertise you should do a Last Known Good Configuration or even if you bought the laptop new you might have to use you OS diskrecovery but it will put it back to factory default. From: chrissun via windows-xp-pro-l [mailto:windows-xp-pro-l Groups. I once experienced this problem too, what happens here is that the etc, or host file gets moved into another location.
I ran a search and found it in the documents folder. Just copy it and paste across again. Jim in GR. Also you can do a google search for Host. From: kassos via windows-xp-pro-l [mailto:windows-xp-pro-l Groups. I want to block specific websites on my old computer Windows When I try find the folder, it says it has been moved or removed.
What now? Just copy the host file from any other machine. Solution is simple: you can create a host file. Start your text editor notepad, not word and save the file as hosts in the etc folder. Someone above told what should be in this file. Good luck. The file is, by default, hidden.
Toolbox windows-xp-pro-lHi, I see you have removed the header info from the original post because, I assume, it is over 3 years old.
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