🎣 What Is A Host File

The hosts file was used to resolve host names for decades before the DNS system was implemented, since way back in the ARPANET days. Since they were used to aide in network name resolution, hosts files grew to become massive documents. The HOSTS file is a text file that contains IP addresses separated by at least once space and then a domain name, with each entry on its own line. For example, imaging that we wanted to make oKFCFSd.

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