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Skoll

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Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 36

[SOLVED] Strange line in /etc/hosts

I was checking my /etc/hosts when I came across this line:

64.50.236.214   releases.mozilla.org

Should that line be there? Is it safe?

That ip points to a mirror site.

Last edited by Skoll (2010-01-14 19:54:14)

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Strange line in /etc/hosts

you didn't add it?  you can always comment it out with a hash # and see if it gives you problems (restart network afterwards (sudo /etc/rc.d/network restart)).  doesnt look like it would do any harm though, other than limiting you to that one mirror

Last edited by toxygen (2010-01-14 18:30:32)

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mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Strange line in /etc/hosts

That's the same thing I had to add to get firefox to be able to download plugins (listed in the wiki Firefox article too).

Skoll

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Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Strange line in /etc/hosts

you didn't add it?  you can always comment it out with a hash # and see if it gives you problems (restart network afterwards (sudo /etc/rc.d/network restart)).  doesnt look like it would do any harm though, other than limiting you to that one mirror

No, I didn't. That's why I was so worried.

Edit: I can download plugins with Firefox even without that line. I found out that my brother had used an arch live cd to change /etc/hosts because he couldn't download plugins, the problem mcmillan mentioned.

Thank you guys for quick answers.

Last edited by Skoll (2010-01-14 19:53:39)

Dieter@be

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Re: [SOLVED] Strange line in /etc/hosts

maybe you installed a patched version of any mozilla software that implements the "fix" mcmillan described?

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