You can, therefore, seamlessly amend the Hosts file to redirect the computer user to a particular IP address when he attempts to access a website.

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What you see in that sample file is all you need to configure that static IP address. Do notice, you aren’t setting the address is the same fashion as you did with Ubuntu 16.04.