Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

Re:Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X by joshka on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @09:23AM (#7627463)

Great article for highlighting the dnsmasq on OSX idea. I wasn't aware that you could run this there.

On the goal of having unlimited easy to configure real domains that point to locahost, another service of interst is localtest.me [1]. This offers *.localtest.me -> 127.0.0.1

[1]: http://readme.localtest.me/

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X by thomasjonas on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @10:04AM (#7627675)

This is pretty useful! Maybe a noob question but how does this work offline / slow internet connections? I'm coding on the train pretty frequently and I hate waiting for urls to resolve... I'm guessing it's caching this DNS entry? (why would I otherwise have to run dscacheutil -flushcache...)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X by joshka on Saturday April 26, 2014 @01:54PM (#7652197)

It has a 1 hour TTL, so assuming you start working before you go offline you might be ok. Fair point though. It could be worth upping that to a day?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X by Xylakant on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @11:04AM (#7628065)

Doesn't work offline, sorry.

[ Parent | on HN ]