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HostsMan is a freeware application that lets you manage your Hosts file with ease. In computing, a host file, stored on the computer’s filesystem, is used to look up the Internet Protocol address of a device connected to a computer network. The host file describes a many-to-one mapping of device names to IP addresses. When accessing a device by name, the networking system will attempt to locate the name within the host file if it exists. Typically, this is used as a first means of locating the address of a system, before accessing the Internet domain name system.

The reason for this is that the host file is stored on the computer itself and does not require any network access to be used, whereas DNS requires access to an external system, which is typically slower.

some features:

· enable/disable usage of hosts file;
· open Hosts file with one click;
· prevent other programs of writing to the hosts;
· scan hosts for errors;
· easily replace all 127.0.0.1 with 0.0.0.0 (and vice-versa);
· find how many host names;
· easily install newly downloaded hosts file;
· create encrypted backups of your hosts file;
· scan hosts for duplicates;

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