Hoster is a tiny freeware utility designed to manipulate hosts file (hosts file s used as a first source to match DNS record against an IP).

Hoster has a wide variety of options, features, here is a quote from official page on features:

• Append File - Allows selection of a file to be appended to your current hosts file.
• Replace File - Allows selection of a file to replace your hosts file.
• Merge File - Allows selection of a file to be merged with your current hosts file.
• Create Backup - Creates a Backup of you current hosts file. Backup file will be placed where ever Hoster.exe resides on your Hard drive.
• Restore Backup - Restores the backup hosts file.
• Restore MS Hosts - Restores the hosts file to Microsoft’s original hosts file.
• Add to Hosts Files - Adds the line item into your hosts file.
• Delete Line - Deletes highlighted line from hosts file.
• Toggle Comment - Toggles whether or not a line is a comment (’#').
• Sort File - Sorts the current hosts file in alphanumeric order, removes all comment lines.
• Swap Localhost - Swaps the current hosts file between 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0
• Remove Block Items - Removes all blocking lines in the current hosts file.
• Copy to Clipboard - Copies the current hosts file to the clipboard.
• Make Hosts read-only/writable toggle
• Search - Enter text to be searched for, click Previous or Next.
• Open in Memopad - Opens the Memopad built-in to Hoster.

Hoster reached version 3.5. The utility is only around 279 Kbytes only.

You can download the utility from this link: Hoster 3.5 Download Link

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