host file equiv...
 

In win I was able to edit the host file to block/unblock/reroute sites - is there anything equivelant in Linux?
Many thanx

which host file you mean to say under windows. If its %WINDIR%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts then

its /etc/hosts in linux.

Many thanx..

To whether it would work I forwarded altavista to google :P
but no joy. Whats wrong with the bottom line:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 Athene
66.218.71.198 216.239.37.99


Cheers:)

/etc/hosts file cannot be used for this kind of redirection it is there to map hostname to ip address translation it has to be

1.2.3.4 hostname.domainname

Ah... ok. Many thanx..

So it more or less locally stores the host name and it's respective IP?
So in that case could you set the IP of a hostname to something else and thus redirect it?
E.g.
IPofAltavista www.google.com

That means one could still access the site by entering the IP instead of it's url.

Sorry but I have to stay true to my [descriptive] name...:o

IF that's not it - is there anyway to block access to a site on a FC3 system? Without a 3rd party utility?

thanx

Watch out, because most large websites have mulitple IPs -- there was a thread around here about that the other week, actually (blocking multiple IPs). If you want to give them a 404 error, you can just do "127.0.0.1 altavista.com"

Else, you can look into iptables, I believe