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I'm using Mac OX X 10.7.4. I changed my /private/etc/hosts file, but when I restarted my computer, my change is gone, like it was reset by the system.

Has anybody else encounter this problem? How did you resolve it?

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Are you using Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client? It seems to overwrite /private/etc/hosts with /private/etc/hosts.ac.

See

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Matteo
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Are you using sudo? you need root privileges to modify system files. Try

sudo nano /etc/hosts

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

If you are using AnyConnect then check this /etc/hosts getting reset in Lion

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Abhishek Salian
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