# smarthosts/smarthosts

Smarthosts

Repository: https://github.com/smarthosts/smarthosts
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/smarthosts
Homepage: https://code.google.com/p/smarthosts/
Language: Shell
License Family: other
Last push: 2013-06-29T19:25:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4813, "days_push": 4813, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1150, forks 286 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:46.512270+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: abandoned
- function: security, privacy, networking
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy, networking
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: hosts-file, dns-blocking-bypass, censorship-circumvention, shell-scripts, unmaintained, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- smarthosts/smarthosts (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:46.512270+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 2026-08-30T06:33:42.213801+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/smarthosts/smarthosts (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:46.512270+00:00, sha c78082c12daa)
  - homepage: https://code.google.com/p/smarthosts/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:38:31.316290+00:00, sha 6c06720c516c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.