HOSTS file on ZTE Blade

[Guest nfh]

Hi,

I have a rooted ZTE Blade with the Japanese Jellyfish RLS9 ROM.

I added a few lines to the /system/etc/hosts file (using adb to pull and push the file from and to the phone), but the phone doesn't seem to be using it for anything. I checked the hosts file with the nano editor in order to find any invalid character (like ^M), but the file is clean.

I tried to ping the custom addresses that I added to the file, but the Blade can't resolve them.

For example, I added this line:

62.169.66.39 sip.optimus.pt

put if I ping sip.optimus.pt I get the "ping: unknown host sip.optimus.pt" error message.

What am I doing wrong?

[Guest wbaw]

No idea what you could be doing wrong, but it always works for me.

[Guest nfh]

Are you able to ping custom addresses, or to perform nslookup? I can't use both commands, they both don't resolve the names that are part of the hosts file.

[Guest nfh]

Ok, I realized what was wrong: it seems that the nano editor was missing some bad characters that the Windows editor added to the file. I edited the hosts file directly on my Android using the vi editor and now it is working as expected.