wait, what?
why do you need to alter the host file?
i actually alter my host file all the time.
one of the best ways to block unwanted web addresses.
ok, one of the most primitive ways.
but what are you being asked to do to your host file?
and why was it so important that you had to come here and say you won't do any such thing and then leave?
This is not a private server, even though it plays like one.
I think the problem was more in reverse order, the OP just doesn't realize it, somehow its not dawning on him he changed his host file in a past life. :rolleyes: