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# Add the Box to Your Hosts File
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It's common for Hack the Box machines to include web servers that respond differently to HTTP requests depending on if you're requesting the IP address directly, the hostname, or a sub-domain.
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(This is called [virtual hosting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting)).
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For example, on the [Bucket](https://app.hackthebox.com/machines/Bucket) machine the webserver gives different responses for `http://10.10.10.212`, `http://bucket.htb`, and `http://s3.bucket.htb`.
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There is no DNS service on the HTB network so you have to use your [hosts file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)) to resolve host names into IP addresses.
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For the Bucket machine, we'd add the following line to `/etc/hosts`:
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`10.10.10.212 bucket.htb s3.bucket.htb`
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You can do this easily from the command line with `sudo nano /etc/hosts` use the nano text editor to add the line.
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To make sure it's working you can try `ping bucket.htb` and it should ping 10.10.10.212. |