Make sure you have restarted Firefox after making changes to /etc/resolv.conf. Specifically, the application-level DNS cache will contain old data if you have not restarted it. This bit me for 3 minutes straight after needing to redirect an address.
Karel Kulhavy wrote: > I want to make my OS return 127.0.0.1 on google-analytics.com and > ad.doubleclick.net to speed up the work with Sourceforge. > > I put > 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com > 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net > into /etc/hosts > > and checked that /etc/resolv.conf contains > lookup file bind > > According to man resolv.conf this should result in /etc/hosts having priority > over the DNS system. However, it simply doesn't work. Both Firefox and the > "host" command behave as if I didn't do anything. > > Why doesn't it work when man resolv.conf says it should? > > CL< [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
