Generate a proper 404 page for blocked sites via /etc/hosts instead of redirect to localhost

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Published on 2012-09-17T00:40:45Z Indexed on 2012/09/17 3:52 UTC
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I have blocked some websites by editing /etc/hosts and adding several newline-entries in the following manner:

0.0.0.0 www.domain.com

And it works. The only thing is: when a website is visited which is blocked, the browser is redirected to my http://localhost, resulting in a directory listing or website-presentation that is running within my localhost root-environment.

It's not a very big problem, but I prefer a standard error that mentions the website cannot be visited (for instance by a 404 page). Is this possible?

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