Setting up wildcard DNS forwarding on your development Mac OSX
It's a typical project, we usally add xyz.local into the hosts file on OSX, but in fact, you can just use a wildcard by doing the following:
(Assuming you already have macports installed, no I don't like brew)
sudo port install dnsmasqsudo port load dnsmasqsudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.dnsmasq.confsudo vi /etc/resolv.dnsmasq.conf
Make sure you have: (if you use Google DNS servers)
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
sudo vi /opt/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
Add
address=/.test/127.0.0.1
listen-address=127.0.0.1
resolv-file=/etc/resolve.dnsmasq.conf #(replace existing line with this)
(Please note don't use .local because Apple decided they own .local... bastards: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20999?viewlocale=en_US)
Personally I have another address= line to redirect another testing domain to a VM that's running a proper production environment that you can't replicate in OSX as well. Remember to flush the cache after this if it ain't working.
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