How to modify the hosts address on the ubuntu graphic desktop environment and the character-only interface

How to modify hosts in ubuntu desktop environment

In ubuntu, you can modify the hosts address in version 14.1 by using the following command:

Step 1. Enter the ubuntu terminal by clicking dash home to see terminal. Click it to open it.

 

 

Step 2: Find the hosts file in the/etc folder through several common commands and modify its IP address.

Sudo su -- enter the privileged mode. You must have the permission to modify files in the privileged mode;

Cd .. (cd etc) -- Return the upper-level Directory (enter The etc folder) (Note: You can also use the absolute path to directly cd to The etc folder)

Ls -- View all files in the current directory, folder (you can see that there is a file named hosts in the etc folder)

 

 

Step3. open and edit the hosts file

Vi hosts -- open the hosts file in the current directory (you can also open it using other software)

Press the insert key on the keyboard to start the input (note: the keypad on the right does not support the input)

After the input is complete, enter (: wq command) to save and exit.

 

 

The hosts file has been modified.

The following describes how to modify the host on the ubuntu character interface to point the domain name to a local machine.

For Ubuntu Hosts, you only need to modify the/etc/hosts file, and there is a hosts in the directory. conf file. At the beginning, I thought I only needed to modify this file. The result showed that I needed to modify hosts. After the modification, restart the network.

Open the host file

Vim/etc/hosts

Add the required items in the following format:

Format:
<IP> <HOSTNAME>. <DOMAIN> <ALIAS>

Example:

61.135.169.125 www.baidu.com

After editing, run the following command to restart your network:

/Etc/init. d/networking restart