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Kevin Sylvestre
Kevin Sylvestre

Reputation: 38012

Custom DNS Without Modifying /etc/hosts Mac OS X

How would one create a Ruby script that will assign an arbitrary host name to an arbitrary IP? At one point this could be done using ghost however it no longer appears to works under Mac OS X 10.7.3. Can it be done without modifying /etc/hosts on a per user level? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1307

Answers (3)

kovpack
kovpack

Reputation: 5045

I prefer using powder (a wrapper for Pow). It is easy to install and easy to use. Everything you'll have to do is simply create a link to your project directory and it will automatically create domain name for you without modifying of your hosts file.

Upvotes: 1

jbrowning
jbrowning

Reputation: 623

Gas mask is my tool of choice for mucking around with my hosts config. You can create multiple host files and switch between them as you like.

Upvotes: -1

Kyle Burton
Kyle Burton

Reputation: 27528

It's not ruby, but have you seen Pow!? It happens to be implemented in node.js, and sets up a dns server to make your browser think your system is the other host names - dynamically.

HTH,

Kyle

Upvotes: 1

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