How to put wildcard entry into /etc/hosts?

Question

I wanted to know about all the subdomains for a test domain, for example.com to localhost. Is there any way to point any requests on *.example.com to resolve to 127.0.0.1

Answer 1

Usually /etc/hosts file doesn't support any wild card entries.

You need to use services like dnsmasq. To enable it in the dnsmasq, just edit the 'dnsmasq.conf' and add this line:

address=/example.com/127.0.0.1

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