Nice little trick to block your sister, friend, girlfriend, dad, little brother (it does wonders if you block their favorite gaming sites, and watch them go nuts 🙂 ) from visiting a site and redirecting to some random website, or playing a nice prank on some non-computer savvy person.
For Xp Windows users:
Go to windows/system32/drivers/etc open the hosts file in it, with wordpad or notepad.
Add an entry at the bottom where it says :
127.0.0.1 localhost
66.102.9.147 www.myspace.com
What it will do is redirect the person from myspace website to ip “66.102.9.147” which is the ip for google.com , you can do this trick to any sites you want just keep adding them in the next successive lines.
For example add:
66.102.9.147 www.yahoo.com
And now yahoo will open as google.com . It can be used a prank also, but I wouldn’t suggest it doing to your bosses computer, cause you will end up fired. And this can only be done if you are system administrator.
If you wish to redirect them to any other site of your liking go to
http://www.hcidata.co.uk/host2ip.htm enter the site you want them to be redirected to it will tell you the sites ip, enter that ip instead of “66.102.9.147” and you are set. Or if you do not want them to be redirected replace “66.102.9.147” with 127.0.0.1
Attached below is the example of how your final hosts file should look like :
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
66.102.9.147 www.myspace.com
Enjoy and happy browsing.
12 replies on “Blocking Site using Hosts File or Redirecting to Random Site”
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Well not really, .html and redirection is server sided, so unless you got an apache running, and a browser open to view it, i doubt redirection will work.
Is there any way to redirect to an html file that is on your computer…
Not online???
thank you very much
Hi,
You are not suppose to delete HOSTS file at all, tell me what you did, your hosts file should simply just show
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
i got rid of the host file but all the sites stay blocked what do i do to fix it
LoL , sorry did not know it would ignite a feud between 2 brothers !!
Well lee he probably found a way around ? I would suggest firewalling that site if you got custom firewall other than stupid xp firewall 🙂
stupid lee if ur going to block my sites u will have to do better then this shit
Your a genuis sumeet , it works excellent now my brother won’t get watch his cartoons.
Thank you, thank you, thank you
This should work :
66.102.9.147 bt.cartoonpalace.net:6969
66.102.9.147 http://www.bt.cartoonpalace.net:6969
66.102.9.147 bt.cartoonpalace.net
66.102.9.147 bt.cartoonpalace.net
Zipped the file : http://www.bloggybloggy.com/randomdownloads/HOSTS.zip
Tried it and works for me gives page not loaded errors 🙂
http://bt.cartoonpalace.net:6969/
I would like to know how to block this specific page, for I am have had no luck doing it.