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    Is there a Hosts file

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by leventozler, Mar 5, 2007.

  1. leventozler

    leventozler Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I bought a new macbook and i need to prevent adsense ads. In windows there is a hosts file that you can edit to resolve adsense ad server to 127.0.0.1

    Is there a smiliar file or any other way to resolve a hostname to local ip?

    thanks
     
    leventozler, Mar 5, 2007
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    TedJ Asus fan in a can!

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  3. Wooky

    Wooky Notebook Evangelist

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    Well there is a hosts file (in /etc/hosts) BUT... OS X uses it as a kind of last resort, unlike a typical UNIX system. OS X uses lookupd and Netinfo (I looked into that when Youtube was blocked down here in Brasil and editing /etc/hosts did nothing). You can try either changing the order OS X uses to give /etc/hosts a higher priority or add the addresses you need in Netinfo... and give it a higher priority as well. This is a strange design by Apple if you ask me.

    http://bettong.net/articles/2006/11/28/changing-the-order-of-lookups-in-lookupd
    http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/2443-using-netinfo-like-hosts-file-3.html
    http://aplawrence.com/MacOSX/macosxlookupd.html
     
    Wooky, Mar 6, 2007
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  4. leventozler

    leventozler Notebook Enthusiast

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    thank you very much
     
    leventozler, Mar 9, 2007
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