The Hosts file in Windows 11/10, is used to map host names to IP addresses. If for some reason, you find that your Hosts file has been compromised and that some malicious entries have been added ...

In addition, by explicitly stating an IP address in a HOSTS file, a website can be retrieved more quickly, because the multiple transmit/receive steps a normal DNS query takes have been eliminated.

Sometimes when connecting to a computer with SSH, things can get jumbled up and an error can occur that looks like this: Add correct host key in /home/user/.ssh/known ...