About Hostal
User friendly DNS database software for novices and advanced users. Allows local IP address mapping by creating a Hosts file for your computer. Local IP mapping can help speed up web surfing, and allows content filtering and privacy protection by blocking designated hosts. Hostal supports Time to Live to prevent stale host mappings. For users on a network, Hostal detects an existing Hosts file and incorporates those settings as well. Hostal supports exporting hosts files for different platforms. Hostal ships with extensive adblocking and content filtering built in. Easy to use database makes managing a Hosts file a snap. Available for Mac OS X.

Now a Universal Binary. This release adds the ability to restart the lookupd daemon on demand. This release adds new advertising sites for blocking. This release adds some new adult oriented podcasting sites for blocking. This release also includes other minor bug fixes and improvements.