Blank host file

I tried to update my iphone 5 but got errors so thought there was an problem in my host file but when i opened it the host file was blank. What should i do??

Hello alikazmi,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you're having some issues with updating your iPhone 5. I found this article that has some troubleshooting steps for you to go through:
iTunes for Windows: iTunes can't contact the iPhone, iPad, or iPod software update server
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1814
Take care,
Alex H.

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Alright guys,
I messed up!
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I tried to take it a step further and update ( well replace) the original blank.template file in the package folder,
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I know i shouldnt have messed with the application package
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Hi All,
I have come across a scenario where i have changed the IP address of a particular host name (which was already present in etc/hosts) to point to a new IP address.
After i did this change, when i do a telnet test to the same hostname, i can see it is getting connected to the new IP to which i changed. But my service which is deployed on weblogic 10.0 still keeps sending requests to the old IP which i commented in the etc/hosts file instead of the new IP address.
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Application deployed on weblogic server will pick the IP address of the server on which the application is deployed .
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I tried to edit the hosts file in Lion with: sudo nano /private/etc/hosts. Then entered Password. The window came up blank evev though I know there is data there.

Thanks BD for your response. I have looked at Youtube where they are demonstrating how to do this by using sudo nano /etc/hosts. After entering the Password it shows a screen with the text of the hosts file. On the bottom of the screen it shows the number of lines read. When I do the same thing I get a blank screen and on the bottom it says no file. I am either doing something wrong or this does not work. I even tried changing the permissions of the hosts file to R & W for system, wheel, and everyone. This also did not work. I have not tried Hostal yet but if I can't find a simple way to text edit the hosts file I will give it a try.

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Clean install. Administrator account. Unable to edit the permissions of the hosts file. There is one in the drivers\etc file, which I cannot edit. There is supposed to be one in %systemroot% \SysWOW64\drivers\etc but there is no etc folder in the drivers folder.
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Hi,
As you would know, some of the Windows 7 users can’t save the host file how they like it. The host file itself will simply vanish what the user had done with it.
In my scenario, I was unable to fix this even after all the instructions provided in above posts. Hence, I have come up with my own idea and luckily it
worked.<o:p></o:p>
For those users who experience this problem, here are the instructions to fix it.
First of all, you should have the administrative privileges to edit the host file. In normal case, if an admin user directly go to the host file in system 32 and add his preferences
and then save it, it should keep the changes. However, in some wicked scenarios, it will not. I had done a detailed research on this through all the available online forums and even contacted Microsoft several times with no luck.
So, here you go with a correct solution for this problem.
Note: If you are not comfortable with Windows OS and don’t know what you are doing, this process can mess up things.
Hence, do not attempt if you are not 100% sure you can make it.
Login to an administrator account.
In the run command (Windows key + R) type, “control folders” and hit enter.
Click on the tab called view.
Select the radio button for Show hidden files, folders and drivers –ON.
Uncheck the ‘Hide extension for known file types-ON
Click on Apply and then OK.
Type “drivers” in run command and hit enter. It will take you to where the folder “drivers” located in System 32.
From the “drivers” folder, double click the folder named “etc.”
Now you can see the “host” file along with others.
Now, in the search area in start menu, type “notepad.exe” and open the notepad.exe as administrator. (In order to do this, you can right click on the notepad.exe shown and select
“Run as Administrator.” If UAC prompted, click YES/OK)
Now, you will have a notepad open with administrative privileges.
At the top left side of the notepad click on “file” and then select “Open.”
A box will appear which will allow you select the file to open. Carefully, navigate to the location where the “host” file is located. To do that, select the drive where you
installed Windows. If you have the Windows installed in C: select ‘Local Disk (C :)’ > Windows > System 32 > drivers > etc. At this point, you might not have another option to proceed or select from. The window would be empty. To proceed further,
select the option “All files” from the drop down menu which is located above the “Open” and “Cancel” button. You can now see all the files located in etc folder.
Select “hosts” from the menu and click on “Open.” Note: You can either click on open or double click on the file.
Now, you will have the host file information open in the notepad which you had already initiated before with administrative privileges.
Make whatever changes you as you wish. (Example: If you need to block a web site called
www.block123.com you can type 127.0.0.1
www.block123.com right under the local hosts.
Make sure you do not change any other letters or characters which are already saved in host file.
This will completely mess up your computer. For more information on the information about host file, refer the Microsoft web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034 . If you
have accidently delete/edit anything from host file, please delete the complete information stored in host file and copy and paste the host file information from Microsoft which is appropriate for your Operating System.)
Click on “file” again and select “Save as” and save it in etc. If the path is showing correct to etc folder, save it to etc. If it is navigated to somewhere else, follow the
instructions provided above and select etc folder and then save it.
Now, go back to the actual host file location which is in System32 > Drivers > etc (You would have it already open if you had followed the instructions just like the way
I have provided)
There you can see 2 host files. One which has already been there and the other one you just saved.
Among the two, one is called “hosts” and the ‘type’ would be ‘file.’ This is the original host file. The other which you have just saved will be named as “hosts.txt” with the
file type as ‘Text Document.’
Right click on the original host file and select rename. You can even click on that file and press F2. This will enable the option to rename the file. Rename the original host
file as “hostold” and hit enter.
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“Text Document” to “File” and hit enter.
Now, you have successfully saved the host file with your preferences.
You can now delete the file which we renamed as “hostold.”
We are done. You would need to do this process all over if you need to edit the host file again. I know it is difficult, however, it is our own requirement and we have to invest
few minutes on this.
Enjoy your computer with a great feeling that you have finally edited the host file as per your wish and take it from here. Wish you luck.
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The system goes to a BSOD because there is some exceptions happened in the kernel (either the device driver errors or the service errors), and Windows implements this mechanism: When it detects some errors occur in the kernel, it will kill the box in case
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To troubleshoot this kind of kernel crash issue, we need to debug the crashed system dump. Unfortunately, debugging is beyond what we can do in the forum. A suggestion would be to contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) via telephone so that
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HP LaserJet 8000N 'print' blanks PDF files.

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The support page for your product may be helpful in the meantime:
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I'm setting up a small local web and production server here in my office running Leopard.
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I have tried to every way I could find on the internet to change the hosts file on my Mac OS X 10.4.11 computer plus several newer macs that operate in my office. I was able to easily do it on the PC's but not on the Macs. I modified the /etc hosts file directly to no avail, modified it using the terminal commands and also tried using the NetInfo manager. I am NOT a tech guy, just a guy trying to get his computers to work properly. A tech company just changed our router to a Cisco ASA device which is why this change needs to be made, they did not know how to make the changes to the hosts files on a Mac. Everybody in the office loves our Macs so to not be able to get to our own website and webmail is frustrating. Here is what I changed the hosts file to:
# Host Database
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Hmmm, the line after...
127.0.0.1 localhost
Should be...
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
Not sure if that is it or not.
Did you see this article, especially for adding from a hosts.txt file?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27291?viewlocale=en_US
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It seems like this article will be the best option for addressing this issue:
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Okay, after a ton of researching terminal commands, I finally found the solution to my own question.
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"Control X" to Exit
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in short...
You'll need a static IP address
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[SOLVED]Is my hosts file functioning as it should?

I'm using this script to update my hosts file with ad blocking settings.
#!/bin/bash
# Hosts file updater
HFSERVER="http://hostsfile.mine.nu.nyud.net"
HFILE="hosts.zip"
ORIGFILE="/etc/hosts.original"
clear
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "This script will update your Hosts file to the latest version"
echo "Your original Hosts file will be renamed to $ORIGFILE"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------"
echo ""
if [ ! -f "$ORIGFILE" ] ; then
echo "Backing up your previous hosts file.."
cp -v /etc/hosts $ORIGFILE # I like verbose file operations. Can be less verbose if necessary.
fi
echo "Retrieving $HFILE from $HFSERVER"
echo ""
wget -O /tmp/$HFILE $HFSERVER/$HFILE
unzip -p /tmp/$HFILE | dos2unix > /tmp/hosts
if [ 'grep -c "banner" /tmp/hosts' ];then
echo "Downloaded and unpacked $HFILE OK"
echo "Appending host list to original content" # which was probably there for a reason, like to make sure localhost worked, and possibly even more stuff if part of a corporate LAN
#cp -f -u /tmp/hosts /etc/hosts
cat $ORIGFILE >/etc/hosts
echo "" >>/etc/hosts # to make sure the original file ends in a new-line so that 2 entries don't end up on the same line, either causing unexpected behavior or not working at all
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#echo "-------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "As a side-effect of this script, any changes you wish to make"
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echo "because /etc/hosts will be respawned from that file and the "
echo "newlist from the server each time this script runs."
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# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost pote
# The Hosts File Project http://hostsfile.mine.nu
# Global Advert Servers Blocklist - Personal Edition
# Release 13/09/2008
# Servers Verified as up and running 13/09/2008 (by dns exploration)
# Updated sorted and maintained by Andrew Short (sh0rtie)
# Contact: [email protected]
# A big thank you to all contributers (too many to mention)
# who really have made this project a success, well done :)
# Licensed under the LGPL a copy of the license may be viewed at
# http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt
# WARNING:
# This file is *extremely comprehensive* and some sites might be
# included here that you wish to visit, if this is the case you can
# deactivate the block on that site by placing a # (octothorpe)symbol
# before its entry, this will deactivate blocking on that server
# so for example #127.0.0.1 foobar.com
# will enable you to visit foobar.com or you can just simply delete
# the line that contains the site you wish to visit.
# NB:
# For some computer software updates you may need to disable
# this file in order to perform the update, if you have problems
# rename this file from "hosts" to "hosts.txt" reboot then perform
# the update and then rename this file back to "hosts" to re-enable it
# You must keep the below lines
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 pop3.norton.antivirus
127.0.0.1 pop3.spa.norton.antivirus
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost pote
# End of file
# The Hosts File Project http://hostsfile.mine.nu
# Global Advert Servers Blocklist - Personal Edition
# Release 13/09/2008
# Servers Verified as up and running 13/09/2008 (by dns exploration)
# Updated sorted and maintained by Andrew Short (sh0rtie)
# Contact: [email protected]
# A big thank you to all contributers (too many to mention)
# who really have made this project a success, well done :)
# Licensed under the LGPL a copy of the license may be viewed at
# http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt
# WARNING:
# This file is *extremely comprehensive* and some sites might be
# included here that you wish to visit, if this is the case you can
# deactivate the block on that site by placing a # (octothorpe)symbol
# before its entry, this will deactivate blocking on that server
# so for example #127.0.0.1 foobar.com
# will enable you to visit foobar.com or you can just simply delete
# the line that contains the site you wish to visit.
# NB:
# For some computer software updates you may need to disable
# this file in order to perform the update, if you have problems
# rename this file from "hosts" to "hosts.txt" reboot then perform
# the update and then rename this file back to "hosts" to re-enable it
# You must keep the below lines
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 pop3.norton.antivirus
127.0.0.1 pop3.spa.norton.antivirus
127.0.0.1 admintds.megatds.com
127.0.0.1 ads.game.net
127.0.0.1 ads.tokgajah.com
127.0.0.1 dl.downloadhosting.com
127.0.0.1 game.treeloot.com
127.0.0.1 gw1.celticfestival.org
127.0.0.1 incestlove.info
127.0.0.1 klickcash.com
127.0.0.1 loomia.cachefly.net
127.0.0.1 pornoexit.com
127.0.0.1 privacy.virtumundo.com
127.0.0.1 redirect.virtumundo.com
127.0.0.1 tds.megatds.com
127.0.0.1 telebizz.org.uk
127.0.0.1 the2all.info
127.0.0.1 treeloot.com
127.0.0.1 ultraload.net
127.0.0.1 ultratds.com
127.0.0.1 v1.cc
127.0.0.1 virtumundo.com
# etc...
The thing i'm unsure of is this section:
# You must keep the below lines
127.0.0.1 localhost
Since localhost is already stated here:
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost pote
For now I've deleted the redundant localhost entry, since it seems to be there for windows compatability.
Is there any harm in leaving that entry?
Last edited by verve (2008-11-29 04:08:29)

Not as far as I know.
It probably just re-encounters the localhost hostname and either dumbly re-adds it to the internal table or ignores it. In any case, no logically discernible harm done.
-dav7

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