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hpr0091 :: Hosts File

A show about DNS and how it works

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Hosted by Xoke on Tuesday, 2008-05-06 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
Windows, Linux, Mac, Ad Blocking, Security. (Be the first).
The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr0091

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Duration: 00:12:34

general.

Hosts file locations
Linux: /etc/hosts
Windows: c:\windows\system32\drives\etc\hosts
Mac: /private/etc/hosts file

Example line:
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net

Example hosts file (blocking ads):
https://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Open DNS

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