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I started filling out my hosts file with my most common sites a while ago...just in case.

by kruhft 15y ago

beaumartinez 15y ago
It's good to keep a log of sites IP addresses, but hardcoding them in the hosts file is a pretty bad practise. What if a site decides to change its IP address?
- laumars 15y ago
  Well then the IP address you have for them will be wrong regardless of whatever method you use to store them. Personally I think it's only a matter of time until there's a "hacker" DNS servers for people to completely bypass all this shit.
  - aliem 15y ago
    and it's only a matter of time until the ISP are forced to block the server IP (like what happened here in Italy).
dpcan 15y ago
Why? If it does happen where everything is based on an IP, the web, ecommerce, all of it, will die. You can't advertise a business as an IP address. In a couple days millions won't be able to find any websites anywhere. Ad revenue will be GONE, nobody will be paying for ANYTHING online and every one of the sites you've written down will surely close their doors because there is no way for them to stay in business. Small businesses everywhere will fail. Websites like Reddit, HN, Digg, etc, will not be able to survive. Google will become useless. Since their search results can only return a handful of sites, you might as well go right to them, bypass Google. Hosting companies will fail left and right as their sites are slowly shut down and their customers leave. There won't even be anywhere to keep websites online anymore, IP or not. And so on.
- kmm 15y ago
  Mine contains 194.71.107.15 (thepiratebay.org) because a judge had it blocked here in Belgium. I could just as well use depiraatbaai.be but it's a matter of principle, I like my world wide web to be "complete". I think the people of the USA should be happy there needs to be a law around it at least. Here it was blocked with no legislative backing, only because a judge deemed it illegal. It's interesting to see you at least have a semblance of democratic process.
- kruhft 15y ago
  Why? Just in case, like I said. I thought I would keep record of some of the most frequent sites I visit, plus, given that my host file is pretty small nonetheless, then I would assume that DNS lookups would be faster since there will no network round trip (but I might be wrong on that one and I'm sure people will point out that it's slower, for some reason).

I started filling out my hosts file with my most common sites a while ago...just in case.

by kruhft 15y ago

I started filling out my hosts file with my most common sites a while ago...just in case.

It's good to keep a log of sites IP addresses, but hardcoding them in the hosts file is a pretty bad practise. What if a site decides to change its IP address?

laumars 15y ago
Well then the IP address you have for them will be wrong regardless of whatever method you use to store them. Personally I think it's only a matter of time until there's a "hacker" DNS servers for people to completely bypass all this shit.
- aliem 15y ago
  and it's only a matter of time until the ISP are forced to block the server IP (like what happened here in Italy).

dpcan 15y ago

Why? If it does happen where everything is based on an IP, the web, ecommerce, all of it, will die. You can't advertise a business as an IP address. In a couple days millions won't be able to find any websites anywhere. Ad revenue will be GONE, nobody will be paying for ANYTHING online and every one of the sites you've written down will surely close their doors because there is no way for them to stay in business. Small businesses everywhere will fail. Websites like Reddit, HN, Digg, etc, will not be able to survive. Google will become useless. Since their search results can only return a handful of sites, you might as well go right to them, bypass Google. Hosting companies will fail left and right as their sites are slowly shut down and their customers leave. There won't even be anywhere to keep websites online anymore, IP or not. And so on.

kmm 15y ago
Mine contains 194.71.107.15 (thepiratebay.org) because a judge had it blocked here in Belgium. I could just as well use depiraatbaai.be but it's a matter of principle, I like my world wide web to be "complete". I think the people of the USA should be happy there needs to be a law around it at least. Here it was blocked with no legislative backing, only because a judge deemed it illegal. It's interesting to see you at least have a semblance of democratic process.
kruhft 15y ago
Why? Just in case, like I said. I thought I would keep record of some of the most frequent sites I visit, plus, given that my host file is pretty small nonetheless, then I would assume that DNS lookups would be faster since there will no network round trip (but I might be wrong on that one and I'm sure people will point out that it's slower, for some reason).