restore orginal host file

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 !!!