smarthosts/smarthosts resource
Smarthosts observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4813
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 4813
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1150 stars · 286 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
SmartHosts is a community-maintained hosts file that maps blocked or slow foreign websites (e.g., Facebook, Google services) to their official server IPs, helping users in China access them faster. It is distributed as plain hosts files for desktop and mobile devices via GitHub raw links.
Use cases
- access blocked websites like Facebook and YouTube from China
- speed up downloads of foreign services by pinning official IPs
- maintain a curated hosts file without untrusted IPs
- apply hosts fixes on mobile devices
- bypass DNS poisoning for specific domains
When to choose
- you need a simple, DNS-level way to reach sites blocked or slow in mainland China
- you want a hosts file that only uses IPs from official server ranges
- you need variants for US servers or mobile devices
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained hosts list - the project has not been updated since 2013
- you need full VPN-style circumvention rather than per-domain IP mapping
- you need HTTPS sites whose certificates no longer match pinned IPs
Facets
dataset · maturity abandoned
security privacy networking censorship-circumvention privacy networking cross-platform windows hosts-file dns-blocking-bypass censorship-circumvention shell-scripts unmaintained linux macos android
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/smarthosts/smarthosts · fetched 2026-08-28 · c78082c12daa
- homepage: https://code.google.com/p/smarthosts/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6c06720c516c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| smarthosts/smarthosts | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="smarthosts/smarthosts")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem