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		tvon on April 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X No, you don't have to add a new entry every time, you just set it up and now absolutely.anything.dev points to localhost. When editing /etc/hosts you have to add a line for every hostname.

arb99 on April 22, 2014 [–]

yeah thats what i meant and said.

by using something to edit the hosts file you'd have to edit it every time (can't do wildcards on hosts file, so it needs editing every time)

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