Richard, On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Richard Aubry <aubry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neven > > Thank you very much. Your help was invaluable. > > You are welcome :) > I looked at /etc/hosts and found and entry for the site I was trying to > reach. I removed that entry and all is fine now. How, when and why that > line was added to the hosts file is a mystery for me. Thank you again. > > It sounds a bit like a foul-play :) I am not sure who changed and added an entry to your file. If it was a last entry in the file, it is likely done by some script/application, that just appended to hosts file. If it was somewhere in the middle of the /etc/hosts file, it sounds a bit more malicious, and human-intervention-like :) Where was this entry in /etc/hosts pointing? If it was a localhost (127.0.0.*) address, you might have Tomcat process running locally. Also, now is probably too late to check the timestamp of that /etc/hosts file, since you changed it recently. You could look inside your TimeMachine for various versions of that file ... see if you can find when was this file changed. Or just the last TimeMachine update, see the update timestamp on that file! Good luck! Neven
