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Another guest post from Daniel Newton

Problem

I’ve had windows for years; I knew the OS inside out. Recently, I switched to Mac. But I wondered how to edit the hosts file for my VPN connections and my servers. After some research, I found out how to do it and thought I will document it on PeteNetLive! 🙂

Solution

Open a terminal session and type in the following command;

[box]Sudo nano /etc/hosts[/box]

Note: I’m using nano for this but you can use vi to edit the document (sudo vi /etc/hosts).

You’ll be prompted to enter your password.

Then you will get this screen;

Type in an entry for example (Note: This is not my IP or my company’s IP!);

To Save, Press Control and O and Enter.

To Exit, press Control and X.

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