As a web developer, I need to make a domain redirect to localhost. I modified the hosts file to do that. But I don't know why it always took so long to do the lookup.
How can I solve this?
10.8.2 DNS in hosts lookup slow
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Best Answer
Try using something like mysite.dev in the hosts file.
Further details in stackoverflow.