/etc/hosts rewriting problem

[Martin Meredith]

Pablo Wolter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use my laptop in home and office. For office I add manually a lot of
> hosts under /etc/hosts as any linux/unix user use to do. But when I came
> to home and click the icon of Network Connection in the right upper
> corner of the screen and select the "home" location my /etc/hosts file
> is empty and only showing the IP address of the hosts tab.
> 
> Can anyone teel me WHY in Ubuntu this strange behavior is ocurring? As
> far as I know, /etc/hosts file should be only writable by root and NOT
> by any user. There are other "security" problems like this enabled by
> default in ubuntu that one should be aware of it?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Pablo.
> 

Are you sure you're writing it propely, if you dont edit it as root, it
may not be saving it when you think it is. I've done this plenty of
times (still do sometimes and it confuses me :D)