What is equivalent of windows' hosts file?

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I want to redirect some sites to localhost. I can use hosts file which resides in directory C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc in windows.

Which is equivalent of this file in Ubuntu?

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 22 '12 at 08:41

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In Ubuntu it is /etc/hosts. You can edit the file as same in other OSes.

edited Jul 22 '12 at 08:41

Eliah Kagan

answered Jul 22 '12 at 05:53

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