![]() ![]() If you need to edit the Hosts file, navigate to the following folder location: Others, like to download and use List from well-known sources like, to add entries which block malware sites from opening. To block a website using the Hosts File, simply add the following entry:Īlthough I do not do it, many users like to manually add entries to it in order to block the opening of one or more particular websites. This will lock down your Hosts file and prevent anyone or any malware from writing to it. To prevent Host file hijacks, you may navigate to it, right-click on it, select Properties and make it a Read-only file. ![]() This is referred to as the Host File Hijack. Malware can redirect Web addresses on your computer by altering your Hosts file. Imagine clicking on and seeing a completely different website load in your browser. The Hosts file in Windows is located at the following location: In this post, we will see its location and also how to manage, lock, or edit the Hosts file. It is a plain text file, and the size of the original default Hosts file is around 824 bytes. This Hosts file is located deep down in the Windows folder. The Hosts file in Windows 10/8/7, is used to map hostnames to IP addresses. The QuFirewall blocks the scumbags permanently but still seems weird that I'm getting so many attacks. Before I installed that Firewall app on the NAS, i was getting lots of warnings from the NAS itself, but it was only blocking for 5 min. My Nas is getting literally hundreds of attacks an hour but they are all being blocked by the QuFirewall which works great but scares the hell out of me that I'm getting that many attacks. I was here to find out if the SSL I purchased on to access my NAS remotely and securely was necessary. I agree with Oyvindo (not that I'm on his level, of course.) but if you are behind the dmz and on your local network, you don't need to screw with SSL. Note that this was necessary because I was using a domain registered computer from my company to access my NAS on a non-domain network (ie. I'm a super rookie novice with this stuff but I couldn't access my NAS properly on my Lan until I followed the instructions (I'll attach below) to edit the hosts file and then all worked perfectly. I believe your problem may be your host file. I see some configs under virtual switch but I don't want to touch there since I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm not really a networking expert so I don't know, maybe now who's responding to my connection request to the NAS admin page isn't the NAS anymore but some other service? It's the only thing that came to my mind. What I did that may be related was the installation of the container station and addition of a docker image for pi-hole. I'm not able to track back to something I did that broke the configuration I've recently reset my router but I'm pretty sure the only setting I had on it was the port forwarding. ![]() As a safety measure, I wanted to close my outside access so that's when I discovered this issue. I'm pretty sure this is a recent problem, I was previously able to do all of that. Windows can't find its shares if I try browse via Explorer and NAS isn't listed under Network. Qfinder lists the NAS but can't access its configuration too. What I can't understand is why I can't reach it via or if I have no internet, I can't connect to the NAS. I can also reach it to but, as expected, I get the mismatching certificate alert in my browser. So, if i connect to I can reach it and configure it. I have the dynamic DNS in place and my router redirects correctly to the NAS local IP. My NAS (TS-251B) is connected to my LAN, replies to ping at 192.168.1.8.
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