Questions tagged [hosts]
/etc/hosts is the configuration file with locally known mappings between domain name and ip address.
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cannot access github.com
I cannot nslookup github:
nslookup github 8.8.8.8
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
nslookup github.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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Unable to resolve DNS names that are mentioned in the /etc/hosts file
I am running RHEL8 and running into a very weird issue. I have host entries in my /etc/hosts file, but when I go to ping them, I am getting name resolution errors.
Here's an example of my /etc/hosts ...
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Debian /etc/hosts has unusual entry
I switched from Ubuntu to Debian
And in debian the /etc/hosts file after a new install is (on a cloud server):
127.0.1.1 static.246.62.63.178.clients.your-server.de static
# The following lines are ...
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sappend flag is set, but file is read-only
I'm trying to set my /private/etc/hosts file on my Macbook (MacOS Catalina) to append-only (so I can easily add entries, but not remove them)
I tried setting the sappend flag, but it doesn't quite ...
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Random DNS errors after change to nsswitch.conf
I recently installed my EPSON L3150 printer's drivers and about the same time I started having weird (and random) DNS name resolution errors in some applications (ssh, nextcloud-client), that I can ...
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How to change the host address that my web server listens on?
I am setting up a web server on my Ubuntu host. To be specifically, it is gdbgui. According to its help info, I can use --host to specify the host IP it listens on. And on my host, I have below IP ...
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Trying to block website
I have Linux and i try to block website and i have followed this kind of way to block website in my computer..
Steps to block websites in Linux
Open terminal shortcut keys Ctrl + Alt + T.
Type sudo ...
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Is it possible to block website through system Linux firewall for browser that used DNS over HTTPS?
OS: Fedora 34
Browser: Mozilla Firefox with DoH enabled
I'm trying to block website through core Linux settings (not web browser extension etc). Problem is inside DoH that I'm using. If I disable DoH, ...
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How to synchronizing /etc/hosts files across multiple linux machines
I have 20 linux servers that use /etc/hosts files to see and talk with each other. I'm adding servers to this pool of servers.
It is required to do host resolution via the /etc/hosts files. DNS or NIS ...
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How can I push to GitHub when it's blocked?
Right now, https://github.com is blocked with 127.0.0.1 github.com www.github.com in the /etc/hosts file. However, I need to push from git to GitHub. How can I achieve this without editing my hosts ...
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copy files from multiple remote machines to local and create directories for remote machines
Have multiple vm machines that am using for studying, and have come up with this script for copying some files from vm's to my local machine:
SG=rohos; date; for i in `cat /etc/hosts | grep "$SG-&...
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Blocking domain on host, results in blocking domain on guest VM (QEMU/KVM)
Desired Outcome
I want to block a.com on a host machine, but allow it on a guest VM. (I would also like to use dnsmasq to re-point domains on the guest machine independently.)
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How do I get the inside of the network to see the server properly? Inside the network, foobar.net doesn't resolve
I'm running MINT 20.1.
I am connected to the net via AT&T UVERSE fiber optic.
I have a DNS, foobar.net, set up to point at my router, and when I am outside the network, I can load a website ...
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Why is bash listing the effective content of /etc/hosts if I press Super_L+Space?
The title pretty much sums it up.
I have some (minimal) content in /etc/hosts.
The file looks something like:
# some comment
127.0.0.1 localhost foo bar
1.2.3.4 baz
::1 localhost ip6-...
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Why is the IP address lookup in /etc/hosts only sometimes work?
The '/etc/hosts' file in a Linux laptop (with LAN IP 172.17.37.21) by default contains :
127.0.1.1 Acer-Aspire-6930G
When I want to reach this laptop wirelessly from a smartphone or a PC using an FTP ...
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The authenticity of host can't be established but that host is in known_hosts file
In order to skip initial SSH negotiation, I have added the public key of the server I am going to connect to inside my known_hosts file, following these suggestions.
However, when trying to connect to ...
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Is there a distro specific to the LAMP stack?
I tried real hard to get LAMP stack working on my pop_os home pc, but could not get it working. Is there a distro in existence with the LAMP stack preinstalled which I can just add WordPress on top of....
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Apache2: Hosting Multiple Sites (Ubuntu Server)
I am new working with system.d and services on ubuntu/debian. I'm trying to serve multiple sites on the same Apache2 (I am note sure if I should have 3 apache2 folders for the each service). The ...
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My /etc/hosts is having no effect
I added a large number of domains to my /etc/hosts, in the hope of preventing outgoing traffic to those sites.
Now I have found however that my /etc/hosts is having no effect.
It's meant to serve as a ...
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mDNS instead of IP in /etc/hosts?
I have a laptop that I want to communicate with from my other PC. Sometimes I need to connect with this laptop for various tasks (ssh, scp, ping, to reach some locally hosted website, etc. - dev stuff ...
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Can I use /etc/hosts to whitelist domains?
I set up a little ubuntu box for my son for remote learning and I would like him to only access certain domains in the browser. I was thinking of doing a blanket etc/hosts but I would need to add ...
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Arch linux: spotify stuck offiline
I have installed spotify on arch linux via yay. When I open spotify it says it is offline even when I have working internet connection and throws error code: 4
This is log of spotify:
spotify: /usr/...
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Is it possible to configure /etc/hosts on a per network basis?
I have a server at home with a domain name (let's call it domain.name). On my laptop, I have added this line to /etc/hosts:
192.168.1.7 domain.name
At home, this is great, but at others places this ...
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Can a line in /etc/hosts on Linux contain just an IP address?
I am closely working on /etc/hosts file in Linux. I have designed some operations for /etc/hosts file like add, modify and delete.
I have read little about /etc/hosts and got to know that it contains &...
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How do I assign a hostname to a dynamic IP address assigned by DHCP?
On my home network, the IPv4 address changes regularly, probably because when my computer got turned off, another computer was assigned to the same address so when I started my computer, there was an ...
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Ansible - Access group variables in tasks
I have my inventory file configured with group variables. Example:
all:
children:
europe:
vars:
network_id: 3
network_name: "europe-eu"
hosts:
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Hosts.deny on FreeBSD suddenly empty?
I'm wondering why a hosts.deny file with about 600 denied IPs and ranges would sudden empty itself. Is there any reason for this to happen automatically? No one else has connected to the server to ...
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Unable to resolve entry in hosts file?
I have the following entry in the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 postgres
This works most of the time:
[root@l25 log]# ping postgres
PING postgres (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (...
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bash like autocompletion for ssh command in zsh shell with /etc/hosts file?
zsh is great so far.
I am using zsh-completions but still I am unable to get autocompletion for ssh commands like in bash as shown in below screenshot:
How to get hostnames from /etc/hosts for ssh | ...
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How do I write dig output to /etc/hosts file?
I'm a shell beginner and here's an example, I don't know how to implement it.
Any help, thanks in advance!
Step 1: Get the domain resolution A record via dig.
dig @8.8.8.8 liveproduseast.akamaized....
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Device or resource busy - getaddrinfo
I'm on a CentOS 7 VM running PG, MariaDB, sidekiq and apache httpd. Sometimes my logs are spammed with errors such as:
unable to resolve address: System error
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What will happen if I add 1 million lines in /etc/hosts/ [duplicate]
I am trying to write a website blocker and the simplest thing I found is putting lines at the end of /etc/hosts. If I want ot have 1 million websites blocked that redirect to localhost would that slow ...
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How do I modify the lines in a etc/hosts?? Add # in the beginnig of the line which has specific domain?
I have a host file which has about 15 lines of a specific host entry.
All these host entries has the text # Entry added by Automation in the entry.
For example:
10.122.123.124 file1.auto.test-...
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Why adding hostnames to /etc/hosts entries change the website viewed
Ippsec does a lot of hackthebox boxes walkthroughs and in many of them he edits the /etc/hosts file.
Sometimes he adds multiple hostnames to the same ip address and when he browses those hostnames he ...
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Block all websites except Kahn academy
I am trying to set up a ubuntu user so that they can access the Kahnacademy instructional website, but not anything else. In particular, I want to block youtube.
There are instructions here but I ...
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What to do when you can't edit /etc/hosts
I need to override DNS for a few hostnames on a Linux Centos 7 machine. I do not have write access to the file, however. What can I do in this case?
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Get all the open ports for a remote host in linux
Trying to connect to a particular port for a remote host. The host is reachable (checked via ping command) but the port is not accessible.
Is there any way to check all accessible ports for that ...
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Entry in /etc/host file not working
I am facing an issue when I make the
entry
192.168.32.56 example.org
in /etc/hosts file
,it does not work. But when I remove it , it starts working. Below is my /etc/hosts file for Ubuntu 16 . I ...
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How can I fix? Systems says "Host is down" and will not boot
After reboot, Debian GNOME desktop starts up automatically, in tty.
When I try to start or stop services with systemctl this message appears.
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (...
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tcpd, inetd/rinetd and iptables
What is the correlation between these programs?
tcpd and inted/rinetd are very old but despite this they are still present in many distributions ... why?
And there is also a correlation between hosts....
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Clarifications for SSH tunnels over HTTP (or HTTPS)
I noticed that when I create a tunnel locally from my PC to the remote one, for some devices (generally routers), the connection via http or https does not take place. I get a pop-up that says:
The '...
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Different IP:hostName mappings for same host in `/etc/hosts`. Why does this work?
My scenario
Relevant entries in my /etc/hosts (I have them written in the same order you see them here)
172.22.5.107 www.wordpress-rend-adri.com
192.168.1.116 www.wordpress-rend-adri.com
I use ...
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/etc/hosts and aliases
I puchased a domain, say fireworks.com, and I would like to call my server ubuntu-18-04. How am I expected to edit /etc/hosts?
Is it possible to add multiple aliases as follows?
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Correct /etc/hosts configuration in ubuntu 18.04
Hello i want to have three virtual severs in my localhost Virtual machine Ubbuntu 18.04.
Id like one localhost -> /var/www/html
one onlyoffice.eduardo.com -> /var/www/onlyoffice ( document server)
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`hostname` result is different from “/etc/hostname”! [duplicate]
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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Pair two file / Remove duplicate entries
I have two host file list like this:
file1.hosts
0.0.0.0 site1.com
0.0.0.0 site2.com
file2.hosts
0.0.0.0 site1.com
0.0.0.0 site3.com
Now I want one list that looks like this:
hosts.hosts
0.0.0....
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Why does localhost resolve to ::1 but not 127.0.0.1
With getent hosts localhost, I only get ::1, although I expect 127.0.0.1. I have IPv6 disabled, so getting ::1 is even more surprising. To add to the confusion, when I ping localhost, pings are sent ...
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Why do changes to /etc/hosts take effect immediately?
Changes to /etc/hosts file seem to take effect immediately. I'm curious about the implementation. What magic is used to achieve this feature?
Ask Ubuntu: After modifying /etc/hosts which service ...
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Is it ok to combine machines with DNS server management and machines that do host lookups through a hosts file?
We have a cluster of Linux machines.
DNS of these machines is managed by a DNS server (a Windows machine with DNS records).
Now we want to add an additional cluster with Linux machines
that would do ...
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Variable for SCP command in script
I'm trying to write a script that will check what is the last modified/created file on the server, then copy it to my homedirectory on this server and then copy this file from node to my local machine....
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