[GLLUG] /ect/hosts gone bad

[Chick Tower]

How were you "messing" with it, Jordan?  I'm not familiar with other 
editors, but if you were using vim, it probably saved the original as 
/etc/hosts~ (that's a tilde at the end).  However, if you edited it 
multiple times, you'll only have the second-to-last version, not 
necessarily one that works.

                                Chick


Jordan Robison wrote:
> I was messing with the hosts file and changed something around and I 
> spent the rest of the night trying to fix it. Here is the problem that 
> happens every time I use sudo:
> sudo: unable to lookup jordan via gethostbyname()