Dumb??? Dept.: host alias listings?

[David Armour]

David Hart <ubuntu <at> tonix.org> writes:

> 
> On Wed 2006-12-13 09:30:51 -0800, David Armour wrote:
> 
> > I don't understand networking or aliases, and my brief googling is 
> > pulling up
> > stuff that I don't understand more than I do. I'd really like to know
> >         a) if I should even concern myself with the host alias 
> > listings..., and
> >         b) if so, how do I remove/edit the host alias lists from my 
> > computer.
> > 
> > The other day, while pfutzing around in System/Administration/Network 
> > Settings/Hosts....
> > (I was *just* looking!), I noticed the Aliases column to the right of 
> > the IP Address column
> > for 127.0.0.1 seemed blurred, or overwritten, so I clicked on the handy 
> > Properties button...
> > 
> > What I could see was a comparatively long-ish list of aliases that I 
> > don't particularly
> > recognize, e.g.:
> [snip domain list]
> 
> My guess is you've installed some kind of advert/tracker blocking
> software that's added certain domains to localhost aliases. (By aliasing
> the domains to localhost the requests don't reach the servers.)

Thank you for your reply, both for jogging my memory, and for the explanation of
one of the functions of aliasing to localhost! I wish I had some sort of google
ability with my danged memory. I *had* installed a script (see below) a few
weeks back.

> 
> Have a look in /etc/hosts and post some of the output here.

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127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain localhost workhorse2

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>