Comments on: How to Edit the Hosts File in Mac OS X with Terminal

By: mrpink

mrpink — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:46:52 +0000

thank you so much!!!:)

By: a b

a b — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:38:29 +0000

Mountain lion pretty much ignores /etc/hosts
it uses directory services now, and you need to learn to use dscl in terminal in order to tame it.

By: Bingo

Bingo — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:27:42 +0000

You need root access to edit the hosts file, this is NOT administrator access.

Use the sudo command in the terminal.

By: Bingo

Bingo — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:27:00 +0000

Actually with a small “h” too.

hosts

By: Bingo

Bingo — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:26:39 +0000

It’s “Hosts” with an “s”, from the terminal if you open a file that doesn’t exist, it will create that file (but it’s empty, of course).

By: pam

pam — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:59:06 +0000

My mac shows “access denied” even though I am the administrator. It suggests that I find the file and unblock it but I dont know how…

By: mrfrish

mrfrish — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:25:10 +0000

the commands have to be :

1. sudo nano /private/etc/hosts
1.1. put your changes
1.2. CTRL+O (press ENTER in order to save)
1.3. CTRL+X (to exit nano)

2. sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

3. dscacheutil -flushcache

enjoy

By: van

van — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:29:21 +0000

can someone help me. whenever i save it, it looks for the host file…

By: van

van — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:14:24 +0000

why whenever i save my or hit command+o it looks for the hosts file…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:23:27 +0000

I messed around with terminal to unblock facebook in Vietnam and now I can’t re-access it in the States. What do I need to do? Can someone help?

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:23:38 +0000

Thanks! I was wary of doing anything wrong and messing things up beyond my own (very) limited abilities, and I would have spent a while googling more and trying to figure it out.

By: Charly

Charly — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:44:43 +0000

Funciono perfecto, Gracias!!

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:55:33 +0000

Hi I got a question, I just got my MacBook and I’m running mountain lion. I’ve tried editing my host file but when I open the window, there is nothing in there. I’m seeing everyone with default settings that you’re not supposed to mess with but I don’t have them in there. I have nothing! Is that normal?

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:16:34 +0000

HUGE MISTAKE in these instructions.

The changes will not save with:

When finished, hit Control+O to save changes to /private/etc/hosts, then hit Control+X to exit out of nano

DO THIS:

When finished, hit Control+O, THEN CLICK ENTER to save changes to /private/etc/hosts, then hit Control+X to exit out of nano

By: Tesi

Tesi — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:37:16 +0000

facebook redirects to https:// these days

you’ll need to add facebook.com and http://www.facebook.com to block it effectively