Using /etc/hosts to route around censorship
Posted by Sharar Ravitz in Censorship, DNS blocking, Linux, The Pirate Bay on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Censorship being all the rage, and DNS blocking being a popular enforcement method - I thought I'd show you guys a little trick to route around DNS blocking using your /etc/hosts file. We'll be using thepiratebay.com in this example, as it's a frequent target of ISP DNS blocking. Open up your /etc/hosts file from the terminal by typing: sudo gedit /etc/hosts
Add this entry to the bottom of the page:
194.71.107.80 thepiratebay.com tpb
Save the file, and close. You can now access The Pirate Bay by typing tpb in your browser address bar.
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