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dev-tld-resolver
Simple top level domain (NSSwitch hosts) resolver for linux based development environment.
Supported Linux Distributions
This tool is developed in a Ubuntu 12.04 system & tested in later versions of Ubuntu & Ubuntu derivatives. Even though not tested, it should also work in other Linux distributions that supports/uses nsswitch.conf file based configuration. In general, if your Linux installation has a file named nsswitch.conf in /etc/ folder, then you should be ready to go with using this tool.
Installation
Ubuntu
- Make sure you have "build-essential" & "git" packages installed. You can install these using following command
sudo apt-get install build-essentials git
- Clone this repository somewhere in your hard drive
git clone https://github.com/mnishihan/dev-tld-resolver.git
- Run following command to build & install the tool
cd dev-tld-resolver/src && make
sudo make install
It's very important that you run the
make install
command as root or using sudo, otherwise installation will fail.
- As root (or in super user mode with sudo) also edit /etc/environment using a text editor of your choice and export a global environment variable named DEV_TLD_DOMAINS with comma separated list of Top Level Domains (tld) that you want to resolve to
127.0.0.1
automatically. For example, if you want.dev
,.wp
,.dpl
top level domains to be resolved by dev-tld-resolver, your /etc/environment should have following line within it somewhere.
DEV_TLD_DOMAINS=dev,wp,dpl
Above step is optional if you don't need dev-tld-resolver to resolve top level domains other than
.dev
, which is the default
- Lastly as root (or in super user mode with sudo) edit
/etc/nsswitch.conf
file and appenddev_tld
to the line starting withhosts:
.
If you have following line starting with
hosts:
in/etc/nsswitch.conf
filehosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
then you should change it to look like
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 dev_tld
If you experience some sort of delay while resolving a host name, you should try to move
dev_tld
before dns, as followshosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dev_tld dns mdns4
- Now logout or reboot your system and login again. After logging in into the system, open a command line and type following command
ping test.dev
If ping is successful, then dev-tld-resolver is installed & configured correctly.
Credits
Code is borrowed & modified from prax by ysbaddaden at https://github.com/ysbaddaden/prax