For testing purposes, periodically disable the / etc / hosts file. How to ensure that he remained in place, but did not work?

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    Open the file (this is for Ubuntu)

    sudo nano /etc/nsswitch.conf

    and from the line

    hosts: files dns

    remove the word files

    hosts: dns

    After this, the hosts file will be canceled.

      I think, just rename the file by adding 1 character, for example.