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Hosts file ?!?! HELP ME PLEASE!

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dontlosetouch

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Jul 27, 2006
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Right due to their site going balls up I can't browse the punktastic.com/forums

They've got back to me but I've no idea how to do all of this, bloody confusing!

Try this as a temporary fix for PT until your DNS clears:

Go into C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc and find a file called ‘hosts’. Right click, open, select notepad, there’ll be some text in some * symbols and something about 127.0.0.1 at the bottom.

Underneath this, add the following:

87.117.204.52 punktastic.com

Save it, restart your browser and try again. It should manually point you towards our new site, doing the job your ISP should be doing.

Let me know how you get on.
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If anyone can help it'd be massively appreciated.
 
Open up Terminal and type

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts
 
The hosts file is, in layman's terms, like a static list of DNS host entries. Your computer doesn't understand sitenames such as www.macrumors.com etc, so it has to have a way to translate the name into a number.

Normally DNS performs this role, but it looks as if someone has accidentally removed punktastic.com's address record off the Internet's DNS database. Until it reappears you can put a manual name-to-address translation in your hosts file, so that your computer knows where to find punktastic.com links.

BTW, if you're trying to do this on OSX you open the file /etc/hosts in TextEdit. The entry they've listed is the same. Just follow the format of the examples already in the file and you can't go wrong.
 
use nano, it's terminal-based, but gets the job done

sudo nano /etc/hosts

you'll have to use keyboard commands to save and quit: control-w saves, and control-q quits. CONTROL not command.
 
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Right, then I get these options to choose from?

^G Get Help M-D DOS Format M-A Append M-B Backup File
^T To Files M-O Mac Format M-P Prepend ^C Cancel
 
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