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by j45
3160 days ago
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A hosts file is like a phone directory stored on your computer that is accessed prior to going to DNS on the internet to search for the ip address for a website. The experiment you speak of is something I've now run for the better part of a decade. Adding sites to the host files does make you forget, eventually. If you add the following to the end of your hosts file, 127.0.0.1 Facebook.com The above will redirect all requests to faceboom.com back to your own computer (the 127.0.0.1 part), instead of trying to search for Facebook's ip address and sending you there. The hosts file is stored in different places on Mac vs windows, a quick search will get you going. |
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