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  • Mark Jaquith — January 25, 2008 @ 4:15 pm

    Googling a technical problem and finding the answer on your own blog is simultaneously humbling and thrilling. Also creepy. :-)

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  • Chris — January 25, 2008 @ 4:24 pm

    That is a really nerdy post title! I’m glad I only semi-understand what you’re talking about.

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  • erik — January 25, 2008 @ 7:22 pm

    alert(“hah”)

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  • Christoph Voigt — January 26, 2008 @ 5:43 am

    Good to see you discovered this evil trap too :D

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  • lildude — January 26, 2008 @ 9:58 am

    Not necessarily. If you’re using Linux, Solaris, OS X, or any other *nix variant, you should find putting “files” before “dns” in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file will cause your localhost to refer to your local /etc/hosts file before DNS (except for Sendmail, but that’s a completely different can of worms ;-) ). I’m not sure how Windows works, but I’m sure there’s a similar method of forcing it to query your hosts/lmhosts file before DNS.

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  • James Davis — January 28, 2008 @ 12:50 am

    FoxyProxy, an extension to Firefox, amongst many other wonderful things allows you to chose whether to perform DNS resolution locally or on the proxy server.

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