I used the Combined Hosts functionality, but sometimes it output the following pictures.

Sometimes when you temporally 'disable' by using the 'default' 4 lines, you forgot to switch back to the full host file with all your blocked domains.

It would be nice to be able to add a red dot/icon... if the current host file selected is less than # lines.

The number # can be set in the Preferences.

Thanks a lot.

Right now host files are stored in "~/Library/Gas Mask". They should be stored in "~Library/Application Support/Gas Mask" instead.
http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=31

Does this project handle the slow DNS resolution issue described here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10200111/79201

In short you can only have one localhost entry. Except some people experience the opposite issue/solution.

Example:

127.0.0.1 localhost example1.dev example2.dev .... exampleN.dev

vs

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 example1.dev
127.0.0.1 example2.dev
# ....
127.0.0.1 exampleN.dev

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Try to install on Mountain Lion 10.8.2
2. GateKeeper prevents installation

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected to be able to install gasmask with standard security settings.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Gas Mask 0.6 on OSX 10.8.2

Please provide any additional information below.
Please refer to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290
It suggests contacting vendors and ask them to consider obtaining a supported Developer ID.

There is of course a work around detailed in the referenced article to reduce the security level or by ^+click > open.

Some host files are huge and takes quite long to display.
By not showing/selecting any file at opening, this allow to quickly edit any file.
Thanks a lot.

Just FYI, but the file is so huge and without doubt duplicates, dead lines... and URL which will never be encountered by all people ~depending on their country.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/adzhosts/

The shortcut to the menu File - Remove should be more complex than simply the delete key.

It is too dangerous.

CMD-SHIFT-DELETE probably better, must other similar applications.

Is "Remove" the good word, is it not rather delete?

1. Open the Gas Mask editor window and remove a child host file from a combined host file
   2.Save the combined host file
2. Open /private/etc/hosts and note that the child host file is still there
3. Close/reopen Gas Mask and note that the child host file has returned and is active

http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=78

http://sparkle-project.org

Upload last Travis build from "master" to S3.
Add link to readme

Feedback from email:
"In a flurry and just accidentally deleted one of my configs .. might be an idea to a) move the 'remove' button away from the 'save' button or b) Add a 'delete confirm' dialogue."

The maximum allowed width of the sidebar is not wide enough to prevent scrolling horizontally. The blue "changed" indicator is only half visible:

Scrolling to the right reveals the rest of it:

Additionally, narrowing the sidebar hides more of the contents, as if the contents have a fixed width.

Expected behavior: The contents of the sidebar do not scroll horizontally. The blue "changed" indicator sticks to the right edge of the sidebar as it is resized.

Hardware: Mid-2010 MacBook Pro 17"
OS: Mavericks 10.9.1

Sometimes, when you open GM, Show Editor, the list is all grey.
The 127... is not in blue.
Thanks

If you Quit the Application, with the menu or the shortcut, GM is no more active.

It is "dangerous", you might not notice it when you thought you will just quit the Editor, but not stop Gas Mask.

Both quit, application and icon, should ask a confirmation to be sure that's the user really want stop GM and not just close the editor.

Change Menu title "Report Bugs..." into "Report a Problem..."
Don't you know we don't have bugs on Mac :-D

I switched windows to the editor and hit the delete key (mac) with the intention of deleting some test in the edit pane. Instead, I ended up deleting one of my hosts files that I had been incrementally updating for months. There was no way to recover it.

It would be nice to have the files go directly to the trash can and not allow deletion of hosts files via the delete key,forcing the user to right-click delete or explicitly hit remove button, so the intention is explicit.

I can highlight a row via shift+down-arrow-key but I cannot select text via shift+left-arrow-key or shift+right-arrow-key which makes it kind of annoying at times. It's a minor one but would improve usability.

Unusual menu name are used

" Create " is " New "
" Create From URL" is "New from URL..." (or Import from URL)

" Create Combined File " is "New Group "
because the fileS are not combined (into one) it is just a Group made by links to other individual files.
Edit (and save) a file and the Group is also updated.

I suggest closing all the menu, rename... issues and make one "Menu 2015" and clear and organize all of them, by thinking a little bit also to future new features.

Boss, what do you say ?

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Change setting in Gas Mask to "Open at Login"
2. Restart computer
3. Check to see if Gas Mask is running.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect Gas Mask to be running. Instead, nothing in the menu bar, and nothing in the Activity Monitor

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
OS X 10.7.5, Gas Mask v0.7

Please provide any additional information below.
I also tried manually adding Gas Mask to the login items for my user, still didn't work.

http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=76

On double click select text between two points.

http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=75

Gas
Local

• Original File
• Prepublish Hosts
• Another chekced hosts file
• A hosts not checked.

Remote

• A chekced remote hosts file
• Unchecked

Show Editor Window

Preferences

Quit Gas Mask

Removing last item in the group selects first item in the next group. It should select last item in the same group.

Fix HostsMainController.neighbourHostsFile
http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=26

Downloading remote hosts files should follow redirects.

http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=35

Love this app. Its right up my street. Any chance you could post a compiled binary for those of us who couldn't compile an app to save our lives?

I'm presuming 0.8 is more or less ready from this #14

Thanks

Pre Mac OS 10.7, the command is:

dscacheutil -flushcache

For Mac OS 10.8 and 10.9. the command is:

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

https://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=82

Just FYI.

When you select/click on a Host file in the left vertical bar, the color is Blue.
In System Preferences - General - ~Highlight Color is Orange, my setting.

I don't know what Apple GUI specs says...
Take a look at Apple Mail, some are grey, blue or orange in different part of the app.

On that matter, if blue is ~hardcoded, it would be better to use dark-grey for the highlight color, like in Mail, to better see the check mark when the Activated Host File is selected.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Buy a retina MacBook Pro.
2. Launch Gas Mask.
3. Stare at the low res icon.

http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=79

http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=69

On latest build of Yosemite, Gas Mask icon is simply invisible when using Dark mode.

It would be really slick if Gas Mask would change my hosts file based on the MAC address of the router that I am connected to. Typically I am either connected to one of my two home routers or one of my two work routers and I have to change between my home hosts file and the one for work. It could also have a default hosts file for any other location.

http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=63

osx 10.9
few minutes it will appear in notice center
External application has changed the hosts file

I have read several articles about reducing the host file, here is a summary.

Using 0 is

• smaller than 127.0.0.1, it is 1 character instead of 9.
• faster because 0.0.0.0 or 0 block the connection immediately. Where as 127.0.0.1 tries to connect first, and then must go through the loopback.

An additional way to reduce the host file size is by grouping several hostnames on one single line.

Obviously, removing duplicate hostnames, empty lines, useless spaces or tabs, and comments will also help.

An example:

127.0.0.1         localhost
255.255.255.255   broadcasthost
::1               localhost
fe80::1%lo0       localhost

# Comment here
127.0.0.1      host1
127.0.0.1      host2
127.0.0.1 host3
127.0.0.1 host4
192.168.2.7    testa#test for john
192.168.2.7  testserverb
0 adstat.com # naughty tracker
0 mk1.adstat.com
0 mk2.adstat.com
0 mk3.adstat.com
0 mk4.adstat.com
0 mk5.adstat.com
0 mk6.adstat.com
127.0.0.1      host2 #look a duplicate

This host file becomes, by using all these technics including the 9 limit:

127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
0 host1 host2 host3 host4 adstat.com mk1.adstat.com mk2.adstat.com mk3.adstat.com mk4.adstat.com
0 mk5.adstat.com mk6.adstat.com
192.168.2.7 testa testserverb

The first file is reduced by almost 55 %.

When you have a host file of 2617 KB, that makes a huge difference, it is reduced by ~44 %.
For a huge host file, take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/adzhosts/

WARNING

• On some OS or OS specific versions:
  • a maximum of 9 hosts on one line are recognized, the following hosts on the line are ignored.
  • a single 0 does not work, use 0.0.0.0 instead, and some do not even support 0.0.0.0 and multiple hostnames on a line.
• 127.0.0.1 must be kept for "localhost", don't use 0.0.0.0 or 0 or some programs might encounter problems!

Have a nice day.

In menu
"GM - Check For Updates..."
"File - Create From URL..."

For and From must be "for" and "from"

I report all the details I saw... so they are listed, don't shoot me!

trying to select text using common keyboard shortcuts is buggy. Alt+shift+left/right does not work. Alt+left/right works but if you want to select a word of text you are out of luck. ctrl+shift+left/right has the same effect as cmd+shift+left/right.

If you edit one or more files, GM must ask if the edited file(S) must be saved.

It can happen when you:

• Close the editor window
• File - Quit
• Menu Shortcut CMD-Q
  but also if while the editor is opened, you use the
• Quit menu from the Icon in the menu bar!

The problem can be to manage several modified files at the same time.

What would be the best...?

1. to show immediately the dialog when you "leave" the current file, either by any type of quit or by selecting another one.
2. to show, one after another, a dialog for EACH modified file only when any type of quit occurs.
3. to show a dialog to save ALL modified file at once.

The second I think is better, if you copy-paste a lot between few files, being obliged to save each time is

Is this project dead? Is it ever going to be revved to work/compile using Xcode 5?

1. Copy host entries from document with different types of line endings
2. Paste into Gas Mask
3. Host file doesn't work properly

I would expect the host file to work

Version 0.6
Mac OS X 10.7.5

Background:
I set someone up to use Gas Mask. Someone on a Windows box emailed them host file entries. They opened the email in Outlook Mac 2011, copy & pasted the entires over. The entires would not work. Then I opened the host file in a text editor (Coda) and got a warning about line endings. I converted them all to LF and then the host file worked fine.

http://code.google.com/p/gmask/issues/detail?id=68

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. create a combined host file.
2. add some local (maybe remote) file in this file.
3. delete some one host in the combined file.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It should could be deleted, but only can add, can't delete any one line.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
version 0.7
OS X 10.8.4

when i put a lot of domains in one line, there is no automatic line break at the end of the gas mask window, so i can't see what i'm writing.

Hello,

Is it possible to quickly hack/change/hex edit 127.0.0.1 into 0?
To use 0 instead of 127 on each line.

Only the first 4 lines perhaps needs 127 I think.

127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

Just that new compilation would be great.

So the editor does not highlight 0, see my other post about rather using 0.

I would very much like to reorder the listing in the menu and in the app itself, however I seem to keep getting blank host files from using combinedhosts.
Is there something that depends on the hosts being in a particular order?
I am just trying to have:
Combined
Local
Remote
instead of the current:
local
remote
combined

Firstly, Gas Mask is brill.

Secondly, it would be even more brill if we could sync the hosts files, as I have an iMac and Macbook. Perhaps store the settings files in Dropbox or something.

Thanks!

As developer I create a local host file for every domain and combine it with a 'defauls' local file, so I don't need to add all default hosts to all my files (having myself from some work when a default host changes).

When having about 30 items in your local and combined list the menu dropdown will be very long. Having an option to hide the locals from this list (so it will only show the combined files) would be nice.

I cannot delete Gas Mask from my machine. When I try I get the dialog message that Gas Mask is open, but in Force Quit Applications windows it is not listed, it does not show up in my dock as open as well.

This will no more display the 'real' file but a cleaned version.

127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

127.0.0.1       thisone.com
127.0.0.1       another.org
127.0.0.1       www.thisone.com
127.0.0.1       www.another.org

All the lines above would be shown as

thisone.com
another.org

As 127... = locahost, no need to shown 127... in front of each line.

The 3 local+broadcast can be in GM preferences, if one setting is enough for everyone.
Or as a 'header' file that will be added to all others files, automatically combined.

Adding automatically the www. would create few useless lines but it's simple and will avoid to forget some.
Thanks,

Add ... to the Preferences menu.

Gas Mask is awesome, thanks for making it. I do have a feature request though: for remote host files, either parse the file for the name or take the name from the file. That way, if you're adding multiple from the same domain, you know which is which without editing the name.

Hey all,

Not sure if it's just me but I get a password prompt everytime I first used Gas mask on Yosemite 10.10.3

My Console logs show:

4/22/15 4:31:04.582 AM Gas Mask[5043]: *** WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor in class NSWindow is deprecated on 10.7 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use convertRectToBacking: instead.

4/22/15 4:31:09.546 AM Gas Mask[5043]: Failed to connect (mainSplitView) outlet from (EditorController) to (NSSplitView): missing setter or instance variable

4/22/15 4:31:09.546 AM Gas Mask[5043]: Failed to connect (scrollView) outlet from (CombinedHostsPredicateController) to (NSScrollView): missing setter or instance variable

Thoughts?