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    This document provides instructions for unblocking blocked websites by editing the hosts file on your computer. It describes a 3 step process: 1) Find the IP addresses of the blocked site using a tool like OpenDNS CacheCheck, 2) Ping the IP addresses to find one that is unblocked, 3) Edit the hosts file on your computer to map the domain name to the unblocked IP address. For example, you could map facebook.com to the IP address 66.220.152.16 to unblock access to Facebook without using a VPN or proxy. However, this only works if at least one IP address of the site is not blocked in your area.

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    This document provides instructions for unblocking blocked websites by editing the hosts file on your computer. It describes a 3 step process: 1) Find the IP addresses of the blocked site using a tool like OpenDNS CacheCheck, 2) Ping the IP addresses to find one that is unblocked, 3) Edit the hosts file on your computer to map the domain name to the unblocked IP address. For example, you could map facebook.com to the IP address 66.220.152.16 to unblock access to Facebook without using a VPN or proxy. However, this only works if at least one IP address of the site is not blocked in your area.

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    Unblock Blocked Sites By Changing The

    Hosts File
    By Young | Published: August 16, 2012

    To unblocked a blocked site (such as Facebook), you can check out VPN, SSH, Proxy and some
    other free anti-censorship tools as mentioned before.

    In fact, you can even unblocked blocked sites without any third-party tools, but just by changing
    the hosts file on your own computer.

    The following will show you how to change the Hosts file and unblocked the Facebook site in 3
    steps:

    Step 1. Find the IP addresses

    For Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and some other big sites, each of them usually has more than
    one IP address, so, how to find out all the IP addresses of a site?
    You can visit the CacheCheck page of OpenDNS, enter the domain of the site (such as
    facebook.com), and click on the "Check this domain" button, then you can see the site's IP
    addresses from all over the world.

    Step 2. Find one unblocked IP

    Among all the IP addresses of the site, some of them may be blocked in your area, while the
    others are not, so how to figure them out?

    The most easy way is to ping them on your computers. For Windows, you can open the
    Command Prompt (cmd.exe), and for Mac OS, you can open the Terminal application, then enter
    the following command:

    ping 66.220.152.16

    The above "66.220.152.16" is one of Facebook's IP addresses, remember to change it to the one
    you are going to ping.

    If there is a "timeout" error in the result, then the IP address is blocked in your area, if not, then
    you are lucky to add it to the hosts file.

    Step 3. Edit the hosts file


    The hosts file is something like a DNS system, so we can locate the blocked site's domains to its
    unblocked IP addresses and then bypass the internet censorship.

    For Windows, you can find the hosts file in the following address:

    C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

    And for Mac OS, you can find and open the hosts file by entering the following command on the
    Terminal application:

    sudo vi /private/etc/hosts

    When the hosts file is opened, you can add the blocked site's unblocked IP addresses with
    domains in the end of the file. Take Facebook for example, you can enter the following 2 lines:

    66.220.152.16 facebook.com

    66.220.152.16 www.facebook.com

    Besides, you can also add more sub-domains (such as developers.facebook.com) with their
    unblocked IP addresses if any.

    After that, save the hosts file, then you can visit the Facebook site directly without any anti-
    censorship tools, but, you need to use "HTTPS" instead of "HTTP" in the URL, which means
    that you need to visit the facebook via the following URL:

    https://facebook.com

    or
    https://www.facebook.com

    A piece of cake, right?

    But, if all the IP addresses of a site are blocked in your area (for example, all the Twitter IP
    addresses are blocked in China), you can't unblocked it by changing the hosts file.

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