[GRLUG] local dns

[Ben Rousch]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:13 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 08:02:37AM -0500, Topher wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Ben Rousch wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
>> >>I know this is common, but I don't remember what it's called.  I'm working
>> >>on a web site, and I need my local machine to look at a different server for
>> >>the domain name than the world dns thinks I should.
>> >>
>> >>Do I put something in resolve.conf so I can look at the dev server using the
>> >>real domain name?
>> >
>> >I think you're looking for /etc/hosts
>>
>> Yeah, that sounds right.  What would the syntax be?
>
> From the...uh...ahem...manpage:

I wasn't gonna go there. ;)

>
> EXAMPLE
>       127.0.0.1       localhost
>       192.168.1.10    foo.mydomain.org       foo
>       192.168.1.13    bar.mydomain.org       bar
>       146.82.138.7    master.debian.org      master
>       209.237.226.90  www.opensource.org
>
> :-)
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