Wildcard in /etc/hosts file

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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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Currently working as Doctoral Student in the Speech Group of the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics of the Aalto Univerity School of Electrical Engineering (formerly TKK / Helsinki University of Technology) in Helsinki, Finland.

Updated on September 17, 2022

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  • Peter Smit
    Peter Smit almost 2 years

    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?

    • Admin
      Admin over 13 years
      What distro are you using?
    • Admin
      Admin over 13 years
      @Mark Ubuntu 10.10
  • ephemient
    ephemient over 13 years
    Indeed. This is rather trivial with dnsmasq; a configuration with address=/local/127.0.0.1 does what OP requests.

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