Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much

Re:Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much by brown9-2 on Friday February 22, 2013 @10:57AM (#5264833)

This would depend on your network setup - it seems unlikely that the OS would automatically refuse to route a request to there. On OS X:

    $ curl --connect-timeout 5 -v 192.0.2.1
    * About to connect() to 192.0.2.1 port 80 (#0)
    *   Trying 192.0.2.1...
    * Connection timed out after 5011 milliseconds
    * Closing connection 0
    curl: (28) Connection timed out after 5011 milliseconds

So your browser will likely end up trying the connection and timing out after a while.

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