Hosts - How does it work?

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So if you tell your computer that you have an alternate I.P. address, using the hosts file can redirect your browser to your computer.

What?

images.ads.fairfax.com.au has a unique I.P. address of (ie) 203.1.23.456 (which is different to www.fairfax.com.au) - put 127.0.0.1 (THREE SPACES) images.ads.fairfax.com.au in your hosts file, and you'll never see an advertisement from the Fairfax website again!

That's right!

Whenever you visit a site that loads up an image from images.ads.fairfax.com.au, your computer will look for the corresponding file on your computer!

Naturally your computer will not find fairfax_ad.jpg at 127.0.0.1!!!

So the image (or any other file) never loads.

It is as simple as that!

This method will certainly cut down on the number of megabytes you download per month.

For those who have their downloads capped, and especially anyone using any one of the current Australian cable/high-speed Internet providers, you'll appreciate how much more freedom using this method will give you each month.

And if enough people do this... you just never know... our ISP's might keep our Internet access rates at a fair price..????????

Happy ad-free surfing.

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