Questions tagged [hosts]
An /etc/ file that lists the hosts on a network (/etc/hosts ).
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Block specified websites Ubuntu 24.04
I am running Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS.
I updated the /etc/hosts file and tried blocking some websites using the 127.0.0.1 websitename.com and it did not work. I even rebooted the machine and it still did ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 has changed the way additional hostnames are treated in /etc/hosts, how can I restore the 20.04 behavior?
I have a number of local test hosts named in /etc/hosts thus:
127.0.0.1 localhost local-a local-b remote1 remote1-a local-sfbay remote2 remote2-a roger1
When I migrated to 24.04, one old, but still ...
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Make Hosts Only Edit Via Custom (not sudo) Password - To Stop Addiction
I use Firefox extensions and modifications to the hosts file in the /etc directory to block websites like Instagram, Reddit, and YouTube. However, I sometimes bypass these self-imposed restrictions ...
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sudo: unable to resolve host: Name or service not known
I noticed that in my team's Docker CI sudo commands, e.g. time sudo xvfb-run coverage run -m pytest test/gui, report an error such as:
sudo: unable to resolve host runner-qwqjblm--project-1351-...
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hosts.deny file breaks when I edit it with python- why? and how do I edit the file with python without losing functionality?
I've started monitoring system logs on my ubuntu sever and noticed thousands of failed ssh attempts from ips all over the world. I wrote a simple python script to track the ips and then edit them into ...
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Unexplained read error w/hosts.allow hostname lookup only
Yesterday I was locked out of a server with the error "kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer" and I immediately found the cause after having connected over KVM that the ...
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Is it possible to block ONLY the homepage of YouTube but not its videos using /etc/hosts?
Use Case: Block the homepage of YouTube (https://www.youtube.com) but not YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1lsbF9NWW0)
In order to block the YouTube homepage, I modified my /etc/hosts ...
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Host and fstab file messed up after try to change swap size
I was trying to increase the swap size of my Ubuntu. I, naïve, followed the steps of this answer:
Check the swap that is in use:
sudo swapon -s
If swap partition(s) are found:
sudo swapoff -a
sudo ...
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I am unable to access or write to etc/hosts file
I am attempting to edit theetc/hosts file. I am able to access it through the graphic file system to find that it is read only. When using sudo nano etc/hosts as many suggest, I see that the directory ...
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Multi sites hosts on a virtualbox webserver
I have a LAMP server on Kubuntu running in virtualBox (NAT network).
I have two sites site1.conf and site2.conf too create virtualhosts
I have modify hosts to have access localy site1.local and site2....
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How to block a specific youtube video on ubuntu?
I can already block whole websites using /etc/hosts. Right now I want to block some specific Youtube videos for all users. The exact URL blocking is not working and the URL itself is dynamic. How can ...
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After fresh install my laptop is still hosting on my router even with wifi disabled?
I have a Dell Inspiron N5010, did a fresh install via USB erasing the disck & using automatic applied settings (Did not have wifi or bluetooth on both soft/hard).
I did this because I my laptop ...
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Help with error: Failed to restart hostname.service: Unit hostname.service not found
Followed a tutorial for setting my hosts and hostname file. When I go to service hostname restart I get error:
Failed to restart hostname.service: Unit hostname.service not found.
My hosts file is set ...
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Check a host file for modification and if missing add it
I'm using docker in which the container has its own /etc/hosts file. It gets cleared out when rebooting. I'd like to create a script to check for an entry and if missing add it.
So if /etc/hosts has ...
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Editing /etc/hosts using WSL vs. using Notepad as an administrator
Why am I not able to modify my /etc/hosts file in Ubuntu through WSL? But if I try to run Notepad as an administrator and name the file as c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, I am able to modify ...
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Grep doesn't return any value in the search
I am looking for a specific value while searching a text file, but with grep I am unable to pull that value. with -head 50, I can see the first 50 lines.
with cat and filename, I see the output as ...
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Editing hosts file to block sites isn't working for 4chan, how do I fix it?
I have blocked quite a few sites by editing the hosts file but have just discovered that this method doesn't seem to be working for 4chan.
The method I'm using is sudo -i gedit /etc/hosts and then of ...
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Multiple hosts name possible on samba server side?
I want to use 2 hostnames to access my samba server.
such as like this...
I mean, On my local network, I want to access the same server (everything is similar) but with 2 different names on network.
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How to Set mac address as host name and hosts 127.0.1.1
I'm using Ubuntu for my OS and I'm struggling to set my host name and hosts to a mac address automatically any help on this would be great.
NAME=$GATEWAY_MAC| sed s/://g
hostnamectl set-hostname $NAME
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How to prevent my computer from connecting to a specific site [duplicate]
I recently decided to make the switch to Ubuntu. And I had a question pertaining to site connections. Before beginning, I need to give some context. I am/was addicted to youtube. I think at my peak in ...
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`sudo visudo /etc/hosts` gives syntax errors
Really dumb question, Ubuntu 20, and I have apache2 installed, not much else.
I go sudo visudo /etc/hosts and want to add an alias "dummy.com" domain alias as a hack to point to the server ...
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"mate-network-properties" won't honor ignored-hosts address
I want to block a social media address.
When I block it via
echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts > /dev/null
works.
But when I use mate-network-properties gui and ...
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Host name access not working
Ubuntu Server 20.04.3 LTS
Linux 5.4.0-88-generic
Hostname : plexserv
All was working fine, Plex and Samba set up, could access files on the server from Windows and MacOS machine no problem.
Then I ran ...
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how to activate a new /etc/hosts instantly
I'm using a terminal command to replace the /etc/hosts - file.
alias nonews="sudo -S chattr -i /etc/hosts < /etc/password_file && sudo -S cp /etc/hosts_all_blocked /etc/hosts < /etc/...
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Adding block list to hosts file
Ubuntu 21.04. Linux newbie here. For a few months I’ve been thinking about setting up a pi-hole to block ads. But a few days ago I read about just adding a block list to the hosts file. I wasn’t aware ...
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How do I edit hosts files? Lubuntu 20.04
Normally I get a access denied even after I change it's permission to 777.
I see many solutions
Use gedit, dunno how to get use or find whatever that is.
Other solutions use the terminal sudo -i gedit ...
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hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns myhostname
Aloha,
i'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and i recently executed a deadly git clean command that was meant to clean the Hard Drive Cache and that whipped out nearly every thing on my hard disc.
Now i can't license ...
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Two VirtualHost websites do not work together under Apache 2.4
I'm running Apache 2.4 under Ubuntu 18.04
I'm having this problem where all addresses I type onto the browser bar get redirected to one of the two websites I have configured (in this case, whenever I ...
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Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server
This is how my virtual hosts the-square.local.conf looks:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port t>
# the server uses to identify itself. ...
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How to resolve captchas whilst blocking google.com on Ubuntu 20.04?
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How could one solve captchas, such as those shown by zoom when one would like to join a meeting from the browser, whilst blocking access to www.google.com (search queries) on Ubuntu 20.04?
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Advance working of /etc/hosts file in ubuntu
I have a Java application which is distributed and having a network connection with a NFS share. The application is using DNS to connected to network share.
We wanted to test a network connection ...
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Deny smtp connection from unknown and unverified hosts with hosts.deny
I need to reject all smtp connections whose host name is unknown or does not match its address. Have tried setting in hosts.deny:
smtpd: UNKNOWN
smtpd: PARANOID
but Postfix logs show that they are ...
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Nmap keeping crashing and popping up the "System Program problem detected", should I worry?
$ sudo nmap -vv -P -T1 192.168.0.1/24
Output:
>Warning: The -P option is deprecated. Please use -PE
>Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-01-01 18:29 -03
>Initiating ARP Ping Scan ...
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How to route DNS resolver to a different DNS based on the URL hostname?
This is why I would like to do:
Most hostnames -> Resolved by DNS1.
Some hostnames -> Resolved by DNS2 (I don't know IP addresses just the hostname).
It should look as creating a whitelist/...
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Blocking hostname and subdomains in hosts file
I have recently started using /etc/hosts to block distracting websites. For specific domains that works nicely, but is there any way to match a domain and all of its subdomains?
So, this blocks ...
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Firefox uses remote name lookup before /etc/hosts
I have added the following line to my /etc/hosts file on Ubuntu:
192.168.0.104 www.tondering.dk www.xzutsfsdet.com
192.168.0.104 is an IP address on my LAN.
www.tondering.dk is a server that exists ...
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Is it possible to create a rule for etc hosts (Rule: 10.0.0.* ip. Usage: ping ip.10)?
If I have multiple hosts I want to add aliases for, e.g.
10.0.0.10 ip_10
10.0.0.11 ip_11
10.0.0.12 ip_12
Is there a way to have a group these into one line?
I tried
10.0.0. ip
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How to redirect a URL to another URL using /etc/hosts
I want to block some sites on my ubuntu system.So, I added some lines to the /etc/hosts, which are
127.0.1.1 www.reddit.com
127.0.1.1 www.facebook.com
This now successfully blocks the ...
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WP Multi-Site Install on Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP Keeps Re-Directing URL
After a few weeks of head banging... I am very near to completing a local development environment for my WP Multi-Site Installation. The final problem that I have (wishful thinking), is that the ...
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/etc/hosts block or redirect domain
I tried blocking domains like this:
127.0.0.1 https://facebook.com
127.0.0.1 https://www.facebook.com
But FB open correctly. How can I block or redirect websites on this file?
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Unable to resolve custom hostnames in /etc/hosts [duplicate]
I'm running Apache/2.4.41 on Ubuntu 20.04. I'm trying to setup a virtual host. Neither Chrome nor Firefox are able to resolve hostnames specified in /etc/hosts file. Even before setting up the test....
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To access another user from a remote desktop while admin is logged in Linux in host machine
Suppose I am logging in as a admin and I want to login as a guest user which is present in the same machine using another remote desktop using any of the services??.I don't want shell using ssh but ...
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How to get all ip from domain name?
I use
getent hosts domainname.com
As a result, I get only 10 ip.
I know that this domain name has a lot more ip.
How to display them all?
This is a VPN server. I'm just trying to create allowing ...
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ssh-copy-id testnode fails with ERROR: ssh: Could not resolve hostname testnode: Temporarily failure in name resolution
I am not able to mention the SSH Generated Key to my test node.
This is the output I get whenever I run the command ssh-copy-id:
aibak@aibak-Inspiron-3542:/$ ssh-copy-id testnode
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-...
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`hostname` result is different from "/etc/hostname" after upgrade
If I open a terminal windows in my graphical user interface, hostname command result is different from content of /etc/hostname:
me@ZyXEL1:~$ hostname
ZyXEL1
me@ZyXEL1:~$ cat /etc/hostname
N4010
me@...
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Adding hosts to hostfile breaks DNS in 18.04 but didn't in 16.04
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I managed to find out what I was missing that made it clear how to fix my problem. Turns out that between 16.04 and 18.04, Ubuntu and derivatives switched from something dnsmasq based to ...
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Hosts file for snap applications
I installed spotify using snap. Now I wanted to change the hosts file to block ads. I used to change the global hosts file and it worked. But then I was installing spotify from the apt repository. I ...
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virtualbox - How to make "localhost" point to the host's "localhost"?
I know I can access the host's localhost using 10.0.2.2. However, what I need is to to be able to type "localhost" in my VirtualBox Edge browser and for it to point to the localhost of my computer.
I ...
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/etc/hosts not working
I populated /etc/hosts with device names and IP addresses. For example:
chassisOne 10.0.0.1
chassisTwo 10.0.0.2
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I am able to ping the IP address of both chassisOne and ...
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Error message while updating
I am using Kubuntu 18.04.2, I opened terminal and entered the following command to update:
sudo apt update
It produced the following result:
[sudo] password for aayush:
Hit:1 http://packages....
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