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I have changed my host file to allow me access via RDC to computers over VPN network. I change the ip's and it works fine. My problem is that every time I log back onto my computer they have reverted/deleted. Im using a mac. I am the administrator as well.

im using 

 sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

To edit my host file.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

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Have you tried to change /etc/hosts instead? – wollud1969 Sep 6 '12 at 9:34
Im not too sure what yo mean? – Will Sep 6 '12 at 9:41
On Mac OS X both files are the same file (hard link). /etc/hosts and /private/etc/hosts have the same inode number (check with ls -i /private/etc/hosts /etc/hosts) – Matteo Sep 6 '12 at 9:53
@Matteo 'Will$ ls -i /private/etc/hosts /etc/hosts ,6082256 /etc/hosts ,6082256 /private/etc/hosts' – Will Sep 6 '12 at 11:11

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If you are using Cisco's AnyConnect it rewrites the hosts file.

Check if you have a /etc/hosts.ac file: AnyConnect uses it to recreate /etc/hosts.

In any case you can define aliases with dscl (from http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111011050950471):

Instead of modifying the hosts file, it's much more reliable to use the dscl command, which has been available since Leopard. Check out http://jonathan.tron.name/2008/01/05/hosts-aliases-in-leopard

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I checked the '/etc/hosts.ac' There was no content. I put my IP's in there but it still changed back when I rebooted – Will Sep 6 '12 at 11:09

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