If you make changes to your /etc/hosts file and want the changes to take effect immediately without having to reboot issue the following command at in the Terminal
dscacheutil -flushcache
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This entry (permalink) was posted on Thursday, July 15, 2010, at 1:19 AM by Jarrod Roberson. Filed in OSX, Uncategorized and tagged dns, hosts, osx.