Wildcard in /etc/hosts file

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It seems that wildcards are not supported in the /etc/hosts file.

What is the best solution for me to resolve all *.local domains to localhost?

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You'd really need to run your own DNS server and use wildcards. Exactly how you'd do that would depend on the DNS package you ran.

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You always want the 127.0.0.1 address to resolve first to localhost. If there is a domain you can use that too, but then make sure localhost is listed second. If you want to add aliases for your machine that will lookup to the loopback address you can keep adding them as space separated values on that line. Specifying a domain here is optional, but don't remove "localhost" from the options.

How to test /etc/hosts

I tried this out and it seems to work as expected:

echo "1.2.3.4 facebook.com" >> /etc/hosts

Then I ran:

$ getent ahosts facebook.com
1.2.3.4         STREAM facebook.com
1.2.3.4         DGRAM  
1.2.3.4         RA

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