Advanced: Manually Editing Hosts
- Quit out of iTunes
- Go to the hosts file. For Mac OS X this is located at: /etc/hosts or /private/etc/hosts and in Windows it is located at: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
- Open the hosts file with Administrative privileges so that changes can be made and saved (eg: sudo nano /etc/hosts)
- Look for a line that resembles something like this:
- Put a # in front of that to comment it out, making it now look like this:
- Save the hosts file
74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com# 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
