NOTE: The following guide is intended to assist if you are using a Mac OS X computer. If you are using Windows, please refer to our guide on how to. Prosom 2.5 for macbook pro. The hosts file is used by your computer to lookup/resolve domain names to an IP address. This file can be used to force your computer to resolve your website to a specific IP address rather than resolving your website using the DNS found in the name servers the domain is pointed to.
On the other hand, hosts file are localized to a specific device. So, when we’re talking about Mac hosts file it is a pretty important document which maps hostnames to specified IP addresses. This concept is actually similar to how we store contact names on our smartphone. For instance, the contact name acts as a web address and the phone number is the IP address. Editing Hosts Files on Mac. When it comes to editing hosts file on Mac, the concept is pretty simple. The Mac hosts file is located inside a folder /etc/hosts which used by OS system to map the hostnames (domain name) to IP addresses. 104.28.18.110 geekussion.com The Use of Mac Hosts File. To block the site’s page.
Manually configuring your domain with the IP address of your InMotion Hosting server, will allow you to test your website without affecting the server where your domain is pointed to via the name servers/DNS. Edit Hosts File. Open the Terminal application. You may either type Terminal in the Spotlight search or by navigating to Applications - Utilities - Terminal. Open the hosts file for editing. In the terminal window you just opened copy/paste the command string below, and press return. Sudo nano /private/etc/hosts or sudo nano /etc/hosts on newer MacOS.
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You'll be prompted to enter your Mac user's password. WARNING: Be sure that there is a space between the IP and the URL. Otherwise, the rule will not work. Save your changes by pressing control-o on your keyboard then return to accept the filename.
Exit the editor by pressing control-x. This takes you back to the terminal screen. You may need to flush your Mac's DNS cache, so copy/paste the below command string into terminal, and press return. Dscacheutil -flushcache You may have to add sudo to this command, for example: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache This completes the hosts file modification, so you should now be able to see your site here with us using your domain in your browser's address bar. When testing is complete you may undo these changes by repeating the steps above but removing the information entered in step 3. Hey, do you happen to have any other suggestions? I have done this previously on this mac.
Different version of OSX. Now I am running High Sierra 10.13.4 on an early 2011 macbook. I am the only user with the only account.
I have confirmed that I am on an admin account.When I open terminal and enter sudo nano /private/ect/hosts I am taken to a version of the terminal that looks almost correct its the GNU Nano 2.0.6 page but there is no information in the main terminal window. No addresses.ect. When I control+O I do also see this 'Error writing /private/ect/hosts: No such file or directory'.Im glad to know that this will work on High Sierra, just not sure what else I could be missing. Appreciate any help anyone might be able to provide. Is it possible to use the address given from eg ssh MACBOOKNAME.local on the remote showing as SSHCLIENT=fa20::907:1051:3cc9:0a33%en0 49867 22SSHCONNECTION=fa20::907:1051:3cc9:0a33%en0 49867 fa20::907:1051:3cc9:0a33%en0 22 (in the environment, using eg 'env grep SSH' on macOS High Sierra, and surely many other platforms for that matter, incl beyond BSD, Darwin, macOS etc; ALTHOUGH the Bonjour serviices maybe are not available?
On QNAP NAS, for example it is though, under the name avahi, if my memory serves.) So, with ping CHOSENBONJOURNAME.local specifically on Mac OS X and macOS we can fetch the IP address. However, with 'ssh CHOSENBONJOURNAME.local' working too, I am ASKING A QUESTION here which seems beyond trivial Google search research.
Q: is it possible to somehow bind fa20::907:1051:3cc9:0a33 or other, presumably so-called MAC-axresses aka hardware addresees per interface. MAC here of course does not at all refer to Mac as in Apple etc, but to networking since the 60ies or so, an acronoymfor Machine Address C.? In the host file we can obviously deal with higher-level of TCP/IP. 10.10.10.10 or 192.158.255.1 or whatever your local network or even WAN is using. We can also run various DNS servers, bind and whatnot.
THE QUESTION IS HOWEVER if there is some easy way of FORCING such hardware adresses to cause resolution of FQDN, hostnames such as indeed id.local in OTHER contexts than eg macOS or Homebrew SSH which accidentally does support Bonjour but connects, as environment on the remote host shows (the MAC addresses, I think?, of the Mac that makes the connection, the environment shown is for the host one connects to, whereby such variables are set, but not with IP for Bonjour, but for hardware addresses). Basically, it would be suoerb, especially in combination with DHCP, to have a lightwegith way of resolving hardware addresses to IP addresses and also FQDN.
The hostfile - is it capable of that IN FACT? Or must one go deep here, into routes etc or even fiddle with the DHCP server to ensure a static LAN address or whatnot is assigned whereby the problem obviously disappears. However, a computer may well have several ways of connecting to whatever LAN in question. Perhaps using an USB hub or Tunderbolt dock, sometimes, and these are then other interfaces. DHCP ID can handle this b ut it becomes VERY cumbersome.
THERE SHOULD BE a very trivial way to get around this. And I therefore ask - HOW can this be done?
Surely thetre is a way. I am unaware of a method that you can use to map Hardware MAC addresses to FQDN/Hostnames via the hosts file.
The hosts file merely handles (local) DNS resolution for FQDN to IP addresses. I believe you would need to review your router capabilities to configure such a network that would force a particular hardware MAC address to be used for a specific IP address. I understand this can be done but varies depending on your router's manufacturer. Apple MacOS High Sierra does support forcing DNS resolution based on the interface (WiFi, Thunderbolt Bridge, etc.) being used, but I do not see where you can handle DNS resolution for Hardware (MAC addresses), just FQDN to IP. I hope this addresses all your concerns.
Feel free to leave a comment if you have any other questions. Thansk for help and instructions!I've done the tesging by editing the hosts file as per above. Looks good.How do I know for sure it's pointing to the inmotion server though? Is there any other indicator showing the host while the website is displayed? I then went on to undo the changes as instructed above. Everytime I open terminal and do steps 1, 2 (and skip step 3), 4 and 5, the inmotion server name/number is still appearing within the terminal.
Wouldn't that mean it still forces it to point to the inmotion server? Is it really undone – did I miss something?Thanks! I followed all the instructions and all worked well. Tested the site and it worked. Then I was concerned that I was seeing the old site and not the one I transferred to your hosting. So, I checked the IP of both, with the host file edited and cache flushed and with the host file lines commented out and cache flushed.
The IPs were the same both ways. I guess this is not a good site test for me. Is there any other way to do this? I don't want to pull the plug on the old hosting site until I am positive everything is working perfectly here. I have also tried the temporary URL with not much success, which is why I wanted to be sure of the testing from the host file. Thanks for your help! Hello D'Ann, I'm not quite sure what you're trying do.
I think that you're confused about how a hosts file change works. When you make a change and assign to the IP address, then whatever URL that you have placed in your HOSTS file will be used when you try to view that particular URL. And it is specific to the URL. For example, if you added www.example.com to your HOSTS file and assigned to the IP address, then when you typed in that URL in your computer it would go to that IP address and only that IP addres per your hosts file change.
This is a procedure used by many developers. It basically allows them to setup a particular domain name and use it on a computer for development without having to change the existing URL while it that location is being developed.
So, yes, the IP for the OLD site would not be changed until you change the DNS. In the meantime, on the development computer, the specific URL that you modified in the HOSTS file woulud be used for development. For example, let's go back to example.com. IF the domain name of the site is 'example.com', but your hosts file change is set to 'www.example.com', then when you type in 'www.example.com' on the development computer, it would be going to the IP address that you specified in the HOSTS file. This IP could be the location of the new site, where you have you installed the software using the normal domain name. Nobody BUT the developer would see the development site because they are pointing to the development server through the IP change in the hosts file.
I hope this clarifies the issue. If you have any further questions, please let us know. Kindest regards, Arnel C.