According to quite a few users on Stack Exchange, Ubuntu doesn’t cache DNS queries, but I got into an awkward situation where I couldn’t hit an internal server because my installation was convinced my internal server was being hosted on an external IP. It wasn’t entirely incorrect, because the server is (sometimes) available externally, but it’s only …
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TextEdit and editing /etc/hosts
To edit your hosts file using TextEdit on Mavericks, you will need to issue the following command in a terminal window: sudo -b /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts