can I use /etc/hosts file to by pass DNS poisoning

Hello everyone,

I’m a fairly new Linux user, and I’m studying for the LPIC-1 102 exam. During my studies, I learned about /etc/hosts.

I’m from one of those shitty countries with a lot of censorship. One of the ways they censor us is through DNS poisoning, and I was wondering whether I could bypass this by defining the IP addresses in my /etc/hosts file.

Thanks in advance.