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Ethical Hacker & Cyber Defence · June 2 · 15 min

Manipulating the hosts file to override

**Theoretical Recap** The hosts file is one of the oldest name resolution mechanisms in computing, predating DNS entirely. Located at `/etc/hosts` on Linux/macOS and `C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts` on Windows, it acts as a local, static looku...

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**Theoretical Recap** The hosts file is one of the oldest name resolution mechanisms in computing, predating DNS entirely. Located at `/etc/hosts` on Linux/macOS and `C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts` on Windows, it acts as a local, static looku...

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