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Issue 39: Lion : Gas Mask doesn't Work
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Status:  WontFix
Owner:  ----
Closed:  Nov 2012


 
Reported by uoft....@gmail.com, Aug 3, 2011
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Lion
2. Try to add a line in Gas Mask
3. Save the hosts file

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output is that it works.  It doesn't work anymore.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Gas Mask 0.5.1, OSX Lion
Aug 3, 2011
Project Member #1 2ndal...@gmail.com
What do you mean by "It doesn't work"?
What is in hosts file (run in Terminal: "cat /etc/hosts")
Aug 3, 2011
#2 uoft....@gmail.com
The right stuff, but it's being bypassed by my browsers I guess.  Meaning the browser is ignoring the Hosts file.
Aug 3, 2011
Project Member #3 2ndal...@gmail.com
What browser are you using?
Aug 3, 2011
#4 uoft....@gmail.com
Chrome and Safari
Aug 18, 2011
#5 david.pa...@gmail.com
Same issue here.  If I do a DNS lookup (even after flushing) on the command line, the change isn't taken into consideration.  If I open the file with a file editor (ex : macvim) and save it without doing any modification, it work.
Aug 18, 2011
#6 otasan.s...@googlemail.com
Hey folks!

I don't know were i read it but i can remember that Gas Mask CAN NOT work under OSX Lion (10.7.x) due to new Sandbox restrictions in the OS.

And yes- also issues under LION.
This is what's happening:

I can start gas mask without problems.
I can edit the hosts file and save it.
When i open the hosts file manually (/etc/hosts) the entries made with gas mask are there!
BUT the entries made with gas mask show no effect whatsoever...

My question now:
Will there be a Lion Update available sooner or later?
Aug 18, 2011
#7 otasan.s...@googlemail.com
Addendum:

Here is the article about the issue regarding editing the hosts file and the new Sandboxing restrictions. Unfortunately the article is in german:

http://www.macnow.cc/hosts-datei-bearbeiten-mac-os-10-7-lion-2134/
Aug 27, 2011
#8 ptrmcr...@gmail.com
Make sure you have a new line after your new hosts entry. It works for me in Lion.

Sep 9, 2011
#9 david.pa...@okam.ca
The new line trick seem to work for me
Sep 9, 2011
#10 david.pa...@okam.ca
The new line trick seem to work for me
Nov 23, 2011
#11 robbyd...@gmail.com
The problem for me was actually the encoding of the host files that Gas Mask was saving. I was having the issue where no matter what I put in the file via the Gas Mask editor, nothing changed. It turned out that the hosts file that was being saved was Unicode (UTF 8). When I re-encoded in TextWrangler to Western (Mac OS Roman), it worked just fine. Perhaps Gas Mask could be changed to write files in Western instead of Unicode. 
Nov 18, 2012
Project Member #12 2ndal...@gmail.com
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Status: WontFix
Sep 3, 2013
#13 haboonai...@gmail.com
GUYS why cant i block torrents searching websites. im trying to be productive for school and it seems i have made in error. let me know guys any mistakes people commonly make. fbs blocked stumbleupon youtube but i cant block it though. thank you for your time guys 

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