How to Block the Access to Certain Websites on Linux

Block certain websites on Linux

By:Arjun Gautam

We can block the access to certain websites on linux as shown in picture below , facebook.com is refused to connect while youtube.com is opening in other tab.

Blocking access to Facebook

Step : 1

Open /etc/hosts in text editor (gedit in my case) with sudo privilege as show in below diagram .

Opening hosts in gedit

Step 2 :

You will get the text editor like this :

Text editor file to add websites

Step 3 :

Now add websites you want to block using

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

127.0.0.1 www.p*rnhub.com and so on .

Step 4 :

facebook ,p*rnhub blocked

Step : 5

Save the file , And you are done .

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