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#1 Post by **Klaas Vaak** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:55 pm

Why isn't there a hosts subfolder in the etc folder? If there is, I cannot see it, even with root permission.

#2 Post by **anticapitalista** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:03 pm

Because debian does not use a hosts or host folder in /etc

#3 Post by **PondLife** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:13 pm

Don’t know why you have not got a host file there should be one. Have use it with web sites from http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ since MX14. Just to check you have scrolled down far enough it is a file and not a folder (apologies if I have just stated the obvious).

#4 Post by **Eadwine Rose** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:18 pm

I have inside /etc/

the files:

host.conf
hostname
hosts
hosts allow
hosts.deny

#5 Post by **Klaas Vaak** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:39 pm

Eadwine Rose wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:18 pm I have inside /etc/

the files:

host.conf
hostname
hosts
hosts allow
hosts.deny

@Eadwine Rose: yes, I have those too. I apologise for the question. In antiX and e.g. in Ubuntu the hosts file resides in the Hosts folder, itself in the etc folder.

#6 Post by **Klaas Vaak** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:41 pm

PondLife wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:13 pm Don’t know why you have not got a host file there should be one. Have use it with web sites from http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ since MX14. Just to check you have scrolled down far enough it is a file and not a folder (apologies if I have just stated the obvious).

@PondLife: you are right, my apologies. In antiX and e.g. Ubuntu there is a Hosts folder in the etc folder, and the hosts files reside in that Hosts folder, which is what I was looking for. Sorry. I should have looked further.

#7 Post by **PondLife** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:52 pm

No Problem, I have been there and done that.

#8 Post by **anticapitalista** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:12 pm

Klaas Vaak wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:39 pm
@Eadwine Rose: yes, I have those too. I apologise for the question. In antiX and e.g. in Ubuntu the hosts file resides in the Hosts folder, itself in the etc folder.

Oh no it doesn't, There is no hosts folder in /etc on antiX. No idea about Ubuntu. As I posted, it is Debian policy/decision Not to have a host(s) folder

#9 Post by **Klaas Vaak** » Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:21 am

anticapitalista wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:12 pm
Klaas Vaak wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:39 pm
Oh no it doesn't, There is no hosts folder in /etc on antiX. No idea about Ubuntu. As I posted, it is Debian policy/decision Not to have a host(s) folder

You are right that it does not exist in antiX either. I am also looking at Ubuntu and have an issue with an amended hosts file that I am trying to resolve. That's how I got my knickers in a twist ;-) Thanks for the correction.

BTW, is there a specific reason you know of why Debian decided that?

P.S. in Ubuntu it doesn't either ! I have been busy with Autohosts and that got me a bit confused.

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