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Why is www.grooveshark.com being redirected to 127.0.0.1?

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Mar 15, 20262723 views
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I think I'm experiencing some kind of local DNS issue. I just noticed today that when I tried to visit www.grooveshark.com, the url is being mapped to 127.0.0.1, because I'm being served by my home web server: I've had my web server up and running on my machine on port 80 for forever. This is the f…

Error Output

> nslookup www.grooveshark.com
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    grooveshark.com
Address:  8.19.240.53
Alias…

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Fix for: Why is www.grooveshark.com being redirected to 127.0.0.1?

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As it turned out, Spybot S&D's "Immunize" feature blocks using the /etc/hosts file. This has already been reported and confirmed as a false positive, and will be fixed in today's update according to the forum post. The detection on cloudfront.net wi…

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