Hosts Blocking

Small utility that syncronizes the hosts.txt file to the /etc/hosts file.

1. Script installs the _hosts.txt into your /etc/hosts file

2. A snapshot of the /etc/hosts is stored inside ./backups as [email protected]

3. A file named latest.txt is created with the contents of the newly created .bak file from #2

Installation

Prerequisites

System requirements: git bash and sudo

Install GIT

macOS: Install git via Homebrew

brew install git

Ubuntu: Install git via apt-get

sudo apt-get install git

CentOS/RHEL: Install git via yum

sudo yum install git

Manually download git

https://git-scm.com/

Install

From your command line application like Terminal or iTerm2 run the following:

git clone https://github.com/michaeltrimm/hosts-blocking.git
cd hosts-blocking
sudo ./run.sh --install

Usage:

Show the help menu...

sudo ./run.sh --help

Copy blocking hosts data to your hosts file

sudo ./run.sh --install

Revert to the previous state of your hosts file

sudo ./run.sh --undo

Revert your hosts file to a stored backup by name

See backups/README.md

Disclaimer

This software is provided "as-is" and comes with absolutely no warranty or guarantee. Please use at your own discretion. No contributor to this project shall be responsible for any issues caused as a result of executing this software. That being said, the software is fully open-source, so have at it... look it over, understand it, and determine on your own merits whether or not you should use it.