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How to do host resolution on OS X.
Note: It should be noted that this is not a UW-Madison Help Desk or DoIT Middleware supported procedure, and, naturally, we can't take responsibility for any damage you do while following or attempting to follow these procedures. Be sure you understand what you are doing.N.B.: YMMV. This works for me. It may not work for you. I can't believe Apple created a wonderful new OS and made it next to impossible to add an arbitrary hosts entry.
/etc/hosts to include the host you want to add. For example:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
128.104.1.160 login.wisc.edu
Leave the other entries (localhost and broadcasthost) alone.
$ sudo niload -v -m hosts . < /etc/hosts 4 items read from input Netinfo /machines contains 4 items Processing input item: ip_address: 127.0.0.1 name: localhost merging directory /machines/localhost Processing input item: ip_address: 255.255.255.255 name: broadcasthost merging directory /machines/broadcasthost Processing input item: ip_address: ::1 name: localhost merging directory /machines/localhost Processing input item: ip_address: 128.104.1.160 name: login.wisc.edu merging directory /machines/login.wisc.edu
$ ping login.wisc.edu PING login.wisc.edu (128.104.1.160): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 128.104.1.160: icmp_seq=0 ttl=62 time=0.963 ms ^C --- login.wisc.edu ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.963/0.963/0.963/nan ms
$ ps auxwwww | grep lookupd root 17320 0.0 0.1 29204 2008 ?? Ss 1:35PM 0:05.84 /usr/sbin/lookupd $ sudo kill -HUP 17320
| Keywords: | /etc/hosts hosts file macos mac os x osx | Doc ID: | 4506 |
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| Owner: | Jon M. | Group: | Middleware |
| Created: | 2006-02-16 | Updated: | 2008-10-03 |