Category "hosts"

Why is my hosts file entry being ignored by the browser? [closed]

I mapped a website with the IP of www.facebook.com to load Facebook when I request a different url (let's say www.x.lk) particular site. It wo

Where does Git Bash get all its host mappings from?

I'm using Git Bash in Windows 8. I can see it has copied C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts over to /etc/hosts. Note that /etc/hosts is not a link to C:\Wind