Developing on Mac - DNS question

[hartten]

Hi,

I am a web developer. I just switched from XP to Mac OSX on a 20" - wow.

Ok here is the problem. I often start new ecommerce web sites before the DNS is changed to our servers. So I need a way to "fool" my mac browser into looking for DNS locally for a specific domain name - before it looks at the real DNS server.

In XP I used to just open the hosts file in c: \windows\system32\drivers\etc and add a link like"

192.113.23.112 www.swankmartini.com

I think that IE would look to the hosts file first before it goes to DNS. Works out nice. I can leave the old site up and work in the new server with just my computer.
Any idea on how I can do this with a MAC? I see a /etc/host file, but it does not work the same as on XP...

Thanks for any advice.

Ian Hartten

 

[Captain Code]

You can modify the NetInfo database with NetInfo Manager to look something like this attached image. For name put the domain you want and the respective IP address.