How To Reroute Your Ip Address For Mac

1. How To Reroute Your Ip Address

Changing your IP address and getting another one representing a different location in the world, should get rid of such problems right away! How to change your IP address to one in another country. To put it another way, how can you gain access to a fake IP address.

How To Reroute Your Ip Address

Since 203.130.48.8-bj-cnc (subtype ip address) and 203.130.48.8 (traditional ip address) are 'ip address' instead of 'alias,' adding them in host file will not do anything. The system will bypass the rules you set up. The only way to redirect ip request is to use third party software like little snitch. They are usually not free. This is because Unix based system will go through ip address directly when requesting instead of wasting time on capture them to enhance performance. Third party software basically reduce the overall efficiency by query ip requests.

Another way to do it is to set up rules in your gateway, that's only if your gateway can do it and if you have a gateway to begin with. I know host file is probably the most convenient way to deal with this, but it simply won't work. Move on, stop wasting time on it. Hostnames are allowed to have numbers in them.

So 203.130.48.8-bj-cnc is a valid hostname even though it contains an ip address in it. You need to make sure that you flush the dns cache of your machine after inputting the rule. Tested and working on Mac OS X Mavericks.

Sudo vi /etc/hosts grep 203.130.48.8-BJ-CNC # test block 203.130.48.8-BJ-CNC 127.0.0.1 203.130.48.8-BJ-CNC ping 203.130.48.8-BJ-CNC PING 203.130.48.8-bj-cnc (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=0 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms – Apr 11 '14 at 15:47.