To setup your computer to work with *.test domains, e.g. project.test, awesome.test and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.
- Homebrew
- Mountain Lion -> High Sierra
brew install dnsmasq
mkdir -pv $(brew --prefix)/etc/
echo 'address=/.test/127.0.0.1' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
echo 'port=53' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
sudo brew services start dnsmasq
sudo mkdir -v /etc/resolver
sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/test'
That's it! You can run scutil --dns to show all of your current resolvers, and you should see that all requests for a domain ending in .test will go to the DNS server at 127.0.0.1
Somehow comments from this Gist do not reach my mailbox. Sorry for the late change. Yes we have changed to .test two years ago.