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kramer65
kramer65

Reputation: 53843

Why doesn't my hosts file redirect anymore?

I'm Mac OSX and I've previously edited my hosts file multiple times and it always worked. But all of a sudden I now don't get the results anymore that I want.

The contents of /etc/hosts are currently this:

##
# 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

www.google.nl   www.example.com

but if I go to www.example.com, I still get the example.com website instead of google. I restarted the browser and the whole laptop, but nothing changes.

Does anybody know how it could be that this doesn't work anymore? All tips are welcome!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1093

Answers (1)

Tristan Foureur
Tristan Foureur

Reputation: 1657

The syntax of the /etc/hosts file is

IP[tab]DOMAIN[tab]ALIAS1[tab]ALIAS2...

If you'd like www.example.com to redirect you to www.google.nl you will have to resolve www.google.nl, take that IP and insert it into your /etc/hosts.

Upvotes: 1

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