How to Edit the Hosts File on Debian

Posted by vitux on Sep 1, 2020 7:09 AM EDT
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All operating systems keep hosts files on a machine in order to translate hostnames to IP addresses. Whenever you open a website by typing its hostname, your system will read through the hosts file to check for the corresponding IP and then open it. The hosts file is a simple text file located in the etc folder of your Debian. This article is about editing the /etc/hosts file on a Debian 10 Buster system.

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