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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What distro are you using? – Mark Davidson Oct 21 '10 at 08:22
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@Mark Ubuntu 10.10 – Peter Smit Oct 21 '10 at 11:12
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1possible cross site duplicate of: http://serverfault.com/questions/118378/in-my-etc-hosts-file-on-linux-osx-how-do-i-do-a-wildcard-subdomain – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Aug 06 '14 at 09:30
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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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5Indeed. This is rather trivial with dnsmasq; a configuration with address=/local/127.0.0.1 does what OP requests. – ephemient Oct 21 '10 at 13:25