Originally Posted by JonNYC
I appreciate it-- but I don't have a "hosts" currently and the one they suggest to create did nothing-- I think. Some of us non-tech-weenie Mac users will need a bit more help, I'm afraid.
I think mac OS makes the hosts file hidden, so you could do
ls -a in the /etc directory (you would need to do this from a shell prompt)
there should be a file .hosts or hosts
edit the file in any text editor (vi, pine etc) and add the previously mentioned lines.