Originally Posted by SubCore

watch out for spaces!
/etc/hosts is the path to a file and must not contain spaces! always be very, very careful in a root shell!

to check whether you have successfully entered it, you can view the file contents by

Code:

cat /etc/hosts

it should look like this:

Code:

subcoren900:~# cat /etc/hosts 
127.0.0.1 subcoren900 localhost
195.113.232.88 downloads.maemo.nokia.com
195.113.232.91 downloads.maemo.nokia.com
subcoren900:~#