Redirect of domain name on OS X,

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:14 PM -0500 2005-08-23, /dev/rob0 wrote:

>  # echo 192.168.0.3   www.domain.com >> /etc/hosts
>
>  This might not work depending on the settings of your resolver
>  libraries, but it's fairly standard across Unix-like platforms so it
>  should work.

	Unfortunately, MacOS X is pretty weird when it comes to the 
networking stuff, so this is not necessarily a valid assumption.

	However, it's almost trivial to set up a caching recursive 
resolver that thinks it's authoritative for www.example.com, and 
directs that URL to wherever you want.  IMO, this is a better 
solution than trying to use /etc/hosts, which is usually only 
consulted during boot by most modern Unixes.

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