Comments on: How to access a namebased website without a DNS record

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:55:37 +0000

for mac, just enter in terminal;

sudo nano /etc/hosts

use “control + x’ to exit ans save

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:27:27 +0000

For MacOSX, the way to edit the /etc/hosts file is possible with the following command :
sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts

By: daliusm

daliusm — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:09:12 +0000

This way is not good. If you are behind of transparent proxy, hosts file modification is not effective. So problem exists.

I even cannot comment here from office )

By: ThaGeek

ThaGeek — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:55:21 +0000

If you are on Vista or Windows 7, you may need to either disable UAC or run notepad as administrator, then open the hosts file otherwise you will be unable to save it.

By: TonyT

TonyT — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:25:06 +0000

Terrific piece of information to know. I had to use it to check on a web site before DNS servers were updated and it worked great. Very slick. Thanks.