Dumb??? Dept.: host alias listings?

[David Hart]

On Wed 2006-12-13 09:30:51 -0800, David Armour wrote:

> I don't understand networking or aliases, and my brief googling is 
> pulling up
> stuff that I don't understand more than I do. I'd really like to know
>         a) if I should even concern myself with the host alias 
> listings..., and
>         b) if so, how do I remove/edit the host alias lists from my 
> computer.
> 
> The other day, while pfutzing around in System/Administration/Network 
> Settings/Hosts....
> (I was *just* looking!), I noticed the Aliases column to the right of 
> the IP Address column
> for 127.0.0.1 seemed blurred, or overwritten, so I clicked on the handy 
> Properties button...
> 
> What I could see was a comparatively long-ish list of aliases that I 
> don't particularly
> recognize, e.g.:
[snip domain list]

My guess is you've installed some kind of advert/tracker blocking
software that's added certain domains to localhost aliases. (By aliasing
the domains to localhost the requests don't reach the servers.)

Have a look in /etc/hosts and post some of the output here.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>