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Re:Developing with Docker at IFTTT by josegonzalez on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:34PM (#10349276)
OS X does weird stuff with the .local tld, making usage of it for local hosts non-trivial. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201275
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Re:Developing with Docker at IFTTT by e12e on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:15AM (#10350864)
Not, that weird:

    > Host names that contain only one label in
    > addition to local, for example
    > "My-Computer.local", are resolved using
    > Multicast DNS (Bonjour) by default. Host names
    > that contain two or more labels in addition to
    > local, for example "server.domain.local", are
    > resolved using a DNS server by default.
Apparently there's nothing wrong with adapting, say, .dev.local (or .ifft.local) with a coresponding hack, ahem, file, under /etc/resolver/dev.local:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/01/04/mac-os-x-and-local-doma...

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Re:Developing with Docker at IFTTT by silvamerica on Thursday October 08, 2015 @02:49AM (#10351252)
That looks like a great way to handle it!
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