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Jehanzeb.Malik
Jehanzeb.Malik

Reputation: 3390

Hosts file ignored Mac 10.11.4 El Capitan

I am running a RoR app on my local. I have some translations in my hosts file.

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   example.dev
127.0.0.1   www.example.dev
127.0.0.1   api.example.dev

They were working fine, until I updated my OS to 10.11.4. If I send ping request to www.example.dev, it seems to work fine. The IP it translates to is 127.0.0.1.

But when I visit www.example.dev in my web browser, it seems to ignore hosts file and ping DNS server for IP.

I am not sure how, but going to localhost in browser does translate to 127.0.0.1.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6099

Answers (3)

Barry Knapp
Barry Knapp

Reputation: 2889

The host you are overriding is resolving via IPV6.
::1 is the loopback address for IPV6 which is analogous to 127.0.0.1 in IPV4. Add the following entries as the last lines in your /etc/hosts file.

::1 localhost
::1 www.example.dev

Upvotes: 0

Josh
Josh

Reputation: 403

I came across this while searching for an answer to a similar problem and wanted to post my findings for anyone else in the same position.

As a team of three, we found that edits to my /etc/hosts file appeared to work, while editing the other two's host files seemingly did not. Upon further digging, we realized I was on OS X 10.10, while they were on newer versions.

We found, after trying about a million things, that additions to the hosts file in 10.11 and up apparently could not have more than one space between the IP and the domain, for example:

DID NOT WORK:

1.2.3.4     some.site.com

DID WORK:

1.2.3.4 some.site.com

After making this change, we immediately started seeing expected results without any cache clears, reboots, or otherwise.

Upvotes: 5

Rene Weteling
Rene Weteling

Reputation: 524

Dont know why but ive disabled my lookback adapter and ipv6 and now its working.

so in your host file disable these two items

# ::1               localhost  
# fe80::1%lo0       localhost

Some fubar osx bug... I miss steve....

Upvotes: 8

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