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li-raz
li-raz

Reputation: 1696

cannot add new host to mac OS X

I am trying to add new entry to the /etc/hosts in mac os (el Capitan) how ever when I try to ping this entry , I am getting error of not resolved there is no nsswitch file what am I missing?

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
local.datafabric.io localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost

Upvotes: 0

Views: 55

Answers (1)

Florian Heer
Florian Heer

Reputation: 714

In the man page for the hosts file

man hosts

the syntax is explained:

IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]

so, if you want to add the name local.datafabric.io as an alias for localhost (127.0.0.1), the line should look like this:

127.0.0.1   localhost local.datafabric.io

man is your friend.

You will probably also want to flush your dnscache. The correct commands for that are depending on the actual version of MacOS.

Upvotes: 1

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