# huhamhire/huhamhire-hosts

hosts for Internet Freedom

Repository: https://github.com/huhamhire/huhamhire-hosts
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/huhamhire-hosts
Homepage: https://hosts.huhamhire.com
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Archived: true
Last push: 2015-04-25T08:59:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5229, "days_push": 4148, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1524, forks 283 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:58.208315+00:00)

## What it is
A Python utility for managing the system hosts file to bypass internet censorship and access blocked websites like Google, YouTube, and Facebook. It offers both a PyQt4-based GUI for desktops and a text-based TUI that can run over SSH on any machine with Python 2.

## Use cases
- unblock google and youtube by updating my hosts file
- bypass government internet blockade on blocked websites
- manage and back up my hosts file across operating systems
- update hosts file on a remote server over ssh
- restore a previous hosts file after changing blocked site entries

## When to choose
- you need a simple hosts-file-based censorship circumvention tool with a GUI or terminal interface
- you want to manage hosts file backups and restores across Windows, macOS, or Linux
- you need to update hosts on headless servers via SSH

## When to avoid
- you need a modern, actively maintained circumvention tool - the last release was in 2015 and it depends on Python 2 and PyQt4
- you need robust censorship circumvention such as VPN, proxy, or encrypted tunneling rather than DNS-level hosts overrides
- you run a modern OS where Python 2 is no longer available or hosts-file tricks are ineffective

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: networking, configuration-management, gui, cli, backup
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy, networking, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli, python
- tags: hosts-file, internet-censorship, tui, pyqt4, gfw, python2, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- huhamhire/huhamhire-hosts (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:58.208315+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:42.804770+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/huhamhire/huhamhire-hosts (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:58.208315+00:00, sha fad3c02c0be3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.