Here is the file you want to mess with
/etc/hosts
you can read about it in the manual pages
man hosts
Basically it's a bunch of lines that associate an IP address with some
sort of human-friendly name/alias. It has 3 parts
IP_address canonical_hostname aliases
-ethan
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