Editing etc/hosts

[anubis666]

I've edited my hosts file to block certain websites, but it doesn't work on all sites I've blocked.
On top of that, for the ones it does work on, it only works when going directly to the site. If I follow a link to the site, it will always display it anyway. Is there something else I need to do other than:

127.0.0.1 website.com

Thanks!

[Snowhog]

When including entries in /etc/hosts of sites you want blocked, use the syntax:

0.0.0.0 website

So, if you want to prevent access to youtube or facebook, you would add these two entries:

0.0.0.0 www.youtube.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com

This works.

[Detonate]

Even though you may block a website in your etc/hosts file, it will still open from a link on another page if the link on that pages uses the IP address of the site instead of the name of the site.

[GreyGeek]

Even though you may block a website in your etc/hosts file, it will still open from a link on another page if the link on that pages uses the IP address of the site instead of the name of the site.

For those cases, at least the important ones, IPtables may help.