Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again
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.
Requirements
- Homebrew
- Mountain Lion -> High Sierra
Install
brew install dnsmasq
Setup
Create config directory
mkdir -pv $(brew --prefix)/etc/
Setup *.test
echo 'address=/.test/127.0.0.1' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
Change port for High Sierra
echo 'port=53' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
Autostart - now and after reboot
sudo brew services start dnsmasq
Add to resolvers
Create resolver directory
sudo mkdir -v /etc/resolver
Add your nameserver to resolvers
sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/test'
Finished
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
to follow up the comment from September: .dev does exist, and anyone reading this far down should change to use .test, which is reserved by icann for just such purposes.
also i don't believe this will override host entries in place but i could be wrong about that!