Questions tagged [hosts]
host is any machine or computer connected to a network and can offer information, resources, services and applications to users or other nodes in the network.
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ping and getent hosts give different result
I have entry in /etc/hosts
1.1.1.1 db_external
When I am doing ping I get it correct
ping db_external
PING db_external (1.1.1.1)
When I am doing
getent hosts db_external
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Where does the command "ssh-keygen -A" generate host keys?
I tried to start sshd and saw an error message as follow.
# sshd: no hostkeys available --exiting
And did some search and found I need to run the command "ssh-keygen -A" to generate default ...
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MikroTik Layer-3 communication between 2 hosts
Test question - mikrotik
In MikroTik RouterOS, Layer-3 communication between 2 hosts can be achieved by using an address subnet. Which one of those "/29" "/30" "/31" "/32"?
Why?
I understand ...
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Batch script to write a line in host file to block a website
Batch script to write a line in host file to block a website
I will be sending this remotely. I know how to do it on my PC manually, but I need the batch command to send remotely to block a website.
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How to fix "sharing violation" message when editing hosts file?
I'm running textpad as administrator. When I try to save the changes, I get a message "Encountered a sharing violation while accessing C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts."
I checked using Process ...
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Does Firefox ignore the hosts file? How to make Firefox honor the hosts file
I'm using Firefox browser in Ubuntu 18.04. I made an experiment where I want some domain names to be resolved to another IP address than their actual one. Firefox seems to ignore the IP in the hosts ...
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Why is the webserver not available in the LAN if I start the server by a service-deamon?
I have a Laravel application, if I start this application in the CLI with artisan serve --port=8081 --host=monitoring it is available in the network with monitoring:8081. I create a ServiceDaemon an ...
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How to get the subdomain pointing to pm2 app with Nginx on Ubuntu?
I have a hosted server that should serve both the domain example.de and app.example.de.
On app.example.de I would like to have my meteor/pm2 application being served.
I have created two configuration ...
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virustotal.com loopback automatically appearing in windows hosts file [duplicate]
A very strange thing is happening on my Windows 11 installation on every reboot:
A loopback rule that points www.virtustotal.com to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) add itself on every reboot, I'm suspecting ...
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VirtualBox host-only network, cannot ping host from guest
I have the following setup:
Host machine Windows:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.103
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192....
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Local Network Subdomain Access
Im trying to set up a local network subdomain that is accessible to the entire local network. This is Ubuntu Server 20.04. I've modified /etc/hosts as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 nas....
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How to properly modify host file?
I was able to modify my host file on my Windows 10 laptop by copying it onto my desktop, modifying it and then pasting it back to the system32/drivers/etc folder. I'm doing this to prevent me from ...
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How do I prevent network access from virtual machine to the host computer?
I have VirtualBox i installed a Windows 10 virtual machine and i wanted to surf the Dark web (because i worried about getting any viruses so i created a virtual machine) and to test some Malwares and ...
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60 minutes, BIG DATA in marketing pruppose [closed]
I just saw a episode with 60 minutes US and there was an sequence with all the "social media" that's going on today - that they saving information about all their the users.
And then i found http://...
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As a non-admin user on Windows 10, how do I simulate a timeout when visiting a certain domain?
I'm using Windows 10, but as a user without administrative privileges. I would like to simulate a timeout when any network call is made to myexample.com. Normally, I could create an entry in the &...
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Can WSL 2 be opened without relying on the DNS Client service?
I recently added a large number of entries to my hosts file on Windows 11 (200,000+). The DNS Client (Dnscache) service struggled predictably with this, so I disabled it via the registry.
WSL 2 will ...
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Postfix bouncing valid emails
I've installed postfix on a lamp stack with multiple vhosts, with a the below configuration:
myhostname = myserver.home
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /...
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Ansible - How to create dynamic inventory that fetches hosts from microsoft AD
I am using Ubuntu as a control-node, and would like to get the hosts from my domain controller (windows server 2022), the LDAP-Inventory Guide & microsoft.ad.ldap inventory – Inventory plugin for ...
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Is there a utility to ping a server using aliases in ssh config (instead of /etc/hosts)?
I'm trying to standardize my server aliases across projects by linking together ssh config files that I can keep under version control.
I'd like to be able to just define machine aliases along with IP ...
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Windows Server 2016 RD Connection Broker doesn't redirect
We have been trying to set up an RDP server farm for the past 2 weeks now and we are right at the end but just cannot solve this last issue.
We have 2 RD session hosts and 1 server running the RD ...
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Unable to unblocked the sites in Hosts File
I blocked some site in Hosts File, but when I tried unblocking it by deleting the indicated sites. I'm still unable to access the sites. Can anyone help me with this?
I blocked the sites by using ...
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What's the Windows equivalent of "/etc/hosts"? [duplicate]
I can block my little brother from accessing a website on my Mac by adding the following line to my "/etc/hosts" file.
127.0.0.1 someaddictingwebsite.com
Do Windows systems have a file ...
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Block youtube via hosts file
I would like to block some distracting websites from my computer.
I figured the /etc/hosts file would be the right place to do so, because it will apply to all browsers and clients.
So this is what my ...
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Load multiple hosts files
Think I already know the answer. But looking for a unicorn.
Anyone know if there is a way to link one hosts file to another, or load 2 or more different hosts files?
I have a hosts file that has ...
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How to solve "sudo: unable to resolve host serverlaptop: Name or service not known"
I've read a lot of post about this issue but none of it helped. I dont understand what did i do wrong. Everything is working but i get this error/warning message: sudo: unable to resolve host ...
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How to Map IP to IP in etc/hosts
I know that in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts I can map IP to domain name like this
127.0.0.1 whatever.com
however when I tried to map to a different IP it doesn't work. For example
127.0....
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(WSL) How avoid overwriting Windows hosts file
Bonjour,
I looked from the web et got lots of solutions but none of them work.
On Windows 11, I use Ubuntu 22.04 (WSL 2). I moved it on another drive. I also use Docker desktop and Devilbox (I can't ...
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PowerShell - Pasting content with Get-Content line by line instead of all in one text
So.. I'm not quite an expert in PowerShell scripting ..
I got this script and I'm trying to add a list of websites to the hosts file to block.
I can't seem to figure out how to make it add each domain ...
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When is a new SSH host key generated?
I copied an EC2 instance from an AMI image and brought it back up. After that I had to remove the entry in my known_hosts file because the SSH host key fingerprint changed. However, I thought that the ...
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Is possible to skip error in executing of bash command?
I am trying to get list of all hostnames from my DNS server by command:
host -l example-domain.com mydns.com
However one machine has invalid DNS name, because there are two hyphens in row and I get ...
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Windows Connection to Local Computers is Slow by Name but Fast by IP Address
On Windows 10, I have several computers hooked up together with ethernet cables and each machine has its own static local IP address, like this:
Given this setup, if I try to connect computers to ...
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How to point a public IP to a laptop at my home?
I got a public IP from GoDaddy, on which I want to host my website.
I want to create the server at my home, on PC or laptop. I want to test with my laptop, which is connected to internet using a wifi ...
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How to block a website like crazygames.com?
I am trying to block crazygames.com website using the hosts file but it doesn't work.
I added this line into the hosts file.
127.0.0.1 crazygames.com
Pinging crazygames.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes ...
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Changing my hosts file won't work
A while ago, I messed with my hosts file and it worked just fine. Then I wanted to undo my changes, so instead of deleting the entries, I completely restored the hosts file using one of Microsoft's ...
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Block officeclient.microsoft.com on Office 2016
We are in a migration process to Win10+Office16 in my company.
In the new system, every time we open any Office application, a proxy pop up appears asking for credentials and we would like to block ...
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Map UNC Path to local folder
I would like to map a local folder to a UNC Path.
i.e. I have a folder, c:\temp that I'd like to access locally via \\media-server\temp
I've tried adding an entry to my HOSTS file,
127.0.0.1 media-...
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QEMU: How to obtain host address from Ubuntu guest?
When using UTM on a Mac with a Ubuntu guest in it, I need to obtain the host IP address (of my Mac) from the guest to mount its file system by sshfs (or any other mount).
It runs UTM based on QEMU.
I ...
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Discrepancy when calculating hosts
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I'm studying subnetting and find my answer to a question does not match that of the instructor.
NOTE: This is something I have chosen to learn about myself. Not a course I am required to ...
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Don't add hostkey to known_hosts for SSH
I want to connect to a host via SSH but I don't want the hostname to be added to my ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
How can I do that?
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trying to add a new entry in windows 10 hosts file
just tried to add a new entry to my windows hosts file so that instead of using this:
http://localhost:8085/
to launch my wordpress site, I can just do something like this:
http://widget.local/
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/etc/hosts read-only with root user login
I am using Debian Server 9.5 I can't change my /etc/hosts file, its being read-only
ls -lh /etc/hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 461 Jan 6 2021 hosts
and I am ssh via root user
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How to block IP Address via Windows Host
I want to block access to a certain ip address via windows host.
This is the ip address 41.190.8.17. And this is the content of my host file.
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Cannot edit or overwrite in explorer hosts file, even as admin
I have followed all the options I can find here. Opened hosts as administrator but cannot save 'in use by another process'. Saved in \temp as 'hosts'. Run explorer as administrator copying over ......
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Remove key from known_hosts
I built several virtual machines during the last few weeks. The problem is, the .ssh/known_hosts gives me the Man in the middle warning. This happens because another fingerprint is associated with the ...
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Namecheap vps and godaddy domain connect
Hello I have Domain on Godaddy, I want to connect with new hosting on Namecheap but i can't find the NS of namecheap server.
Someone to help me how to do that?
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Can't access second site on IIS when connected on a VPN
I have a Windows Server which has my dev website on it and can be accessed via IP or server name http://servername on the actual server or http://servername.org.com on my home PC which is connecting ...
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How do I remotely modify a Windows 10 hosts file? [closed]
I have a general email issue, with the solution being to edit the hosts file through notepad, however I was wondering if there is a way to patch the hosts file remotely, changing an IP within it?
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Unblocking blocked site with hosts file
I have www.somesite.com blocked in my country. But I have another domain www.another.com that points to the same server and it's not blocked (Apache Virtual Host) and works fine.
I put an entry in ...
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Local domains redirecting to https Win10 on 3 main browsers
This is blowing my head up - for local development I have added some domains to my hosts files as follows:
127.0.0.1 cake.test
127.0.0.1 foobar.test
127.0.0.1 dog.cat
cake.test works fine - all good.
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How many subnets and hosts per subnet can you get from the network 172.31.0.0/19? [closed]
How many subnets and hosts per subnet can you get from the network 172.31.0.0/19?
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