You can block a domain on your machine without installing another browser extension. Point the...
You can block a domain on your machine without installing another browser extension.
Point the hostname at a dead address in the hosts file. The OS resolves it locally and the site never loads.
This is blunt. It works for distraction sites, telemetry hosts you do not need, and quick local tests.
The pattern
0.0.0.0 www.example.com
Most people open /etc/hosts, change one line, refresh the browser, and hope. That works until it...
You edited the hosts file. The line looks correct. The browser still opens the old site. Do not...
You need to open the hosts file. You already know why. You just cannot remember the path. Here it is...
You want shop.test on localhost during the day, then the real client domain pointed at staging, then...
Or: how a "this host is dead" verdict from a single net.LookupHost call quietly broke our crawler,...
I’ll admit it: I miss the simplicity of /etc/hosts. There was something elegant about it. You wanted laserprinter to mean…
