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/etc/hosts getting reset in Lion

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Mar 15, 202618089 views
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In order to do web development on my local machine, I use the file to define hosts that point back to 127.0.0.1 to which I have Apache serve up via VirtualHosts. This works great, except that now it seems that Lion resets my /etc/hosts file every so often. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there…

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I just discovered what is resetting my /etc/hosts file. It the Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client. Any time I would connect to my organization's VPN, it was resetting the hosts file to a default. I so rarely connect to the VPN, that it made the problem see…

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