You want shop.test on localhost during the day, then the real client domain pointed at staging, then...
You want shop.test on localhost during the day, then the real client domain pointed at staging, then maybe the same domain pointed at a new server before DNS moves.
You do not need dnsmasq for that. You need a clean way to switch mappings without leaving three conflicting lines in /etc/hosts.
Why one big hosts file fails
After a few months it often looks like this:
127.0.0.1 shop.test
Most people open /etc/hosts, change one line, refresh the browser, and hope. That works until it...
You edited the hosts file. The line looks correct. The browser still opens the old site. Do not...
Thirty-eight domains. One session. No user-visible downtime. That's the result. But the process...
Or: how a "this host is dead" verdict from a single net.LookupHost call quietly broke our crawler,...
You can block a domain on your machine without installing another browser extension. Point the...
I’ll admit it: I miss the simplicity of /etc/hosts. There was something elegant about it. You wanted laserprinter to mean…
