restore orginal host file
i changed my hostfile and now i cant seem to access itunes properly. How do i restore my host file?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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i changed my hostfile and now i cant seem to access itunes properly. How do i restore my host file?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Hi l,
You could just restore from your last hourly Time Machine backup.
Use the free Text Wrangler to Open File by Name:
/private/etc/hosts
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
Select below and copy, select all in your /private/etc/hosts and paste, save with the admin password. Reboot.
Next time, make a copy of the file before messing with it.
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
Extra note:
If your attempting to block domains using the hosts file, you need to keep the new entries BELOW what you see above and use 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 like what is used on Windows (127.0.0.1 causes issues in OS X)
so for instance to block Facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
# symbol "comments out" a line, tellling the computer to ignore this line
Thank you SO MUCH !!!
restore orginal host file