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Submitted by gnuvideoro on Thu, 07/03/2014 - 20:27

Can't block a subdomain in /etc/hosts

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Thu, 07/03/2014 - 20:27
gnuvideoro
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Hello guys,

I have some problems blocking a facebook subdomain in /etc/hosts. I am able to block facebook.com but I cannot block a subdomain called ro-ro.facebook.com.

I'm typing everything as I should but it just doesn't work, it's very weird.

Did anyone met with this problem, with facebook subdomains and knows how to solve it ?

In case you ask yoursels why I'm trying to do that, the reason is that I want to cure a friend from this disease called facebook.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

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Sat, 07/05/2014 - 14:45
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I think /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow are files you have to edit
and you would have to add somthing like

.facebook.com

to block all the subdomains

You could read the man page of hosts.deny using

man hosts.deny

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