content/blog/2020-01-04-setting-up-a-local-resolver-on-macos/index.md

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-title: Setting up a local resolver on macOS
-date: '2020-01-04T02:30:25+00:00'
-layout: micropost
-categories:
-- web
-- web development
-- dns
-- internet
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-
-For a good number of years I was using Basecamp's Pow for local web
-development and one of my favourite features was the in built local DNS
-resolver that meant that `*.dev` would resolve to `127.0.0.1`. This mean
-that I had a unique hostname for every site I was building and running
-locally which I have found incredibly useful.
-
-Unfortunately Pow no longer sees active development (the GitHub repo has
-been archived) so I wanted to see if I could set up the same kind of
-local resolver on my Mac without using it.
-
-It turned out to be pretty straightforward!
-
-Note: We're using `.localhost` instead of `.dev` because Google own the
-`.dev` TLD and in 2017 they added an HSTS rule to Chromium that forces
-any `.dev` domain to use HTTPS. As you can imagine, this is not ideal
-for local development so web developers everywhere had to adjust their
-setups.
-
-First of all we need to install Dnsmasq. This will handle the local name
-resolution. If you're using Homebrew this is dead simple:
-
-    $ brew install dnsmasq
-
-Then we need to configure it to resolve any domain name that ends in
-`.localhost` to resolve to `127.0.0.1`.
-
-Uncomment the following line:
-
-    # /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
-    conf-dir=/usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d
-
-Add the following file to the Dnsmasq configuration directory:
-
-    # /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/localhost
-    address=/.localhost/127.0.0.1
-
-Start `dnsmasq` as root (It needs to be running as root to be able to
-bind to port 53):
-
-    $ sudo brew services start dnsmasq
-
-Next we need to tell macOS about the local resolver.
-
-Add the following file (You will need to do this as `root`):
-
-    # /etc/resolver/localhost
-    nameserver 127.0.0.1
-    domain localhost
-    search_order 1
-
-And voila! Any domain ending in `.localhost` should now resolve to
-`127.0.0.1`. We can test this with a ping:
-
-    $ ping foobar.localhost
-    PING foobar.localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
-    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms
-    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.262 ms
-    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.281 ms
-
-## So why is this useful?
-
-That's a very good question! Here's some of the reasons I've found:
-
-1.  If you're developing an app that relies on a number of small
-    services it can be useful to differentiate them by domain.
-2.  It makes OAuth callback URL's more readable.
-3.  It's useful for external services that require a domain name to
-    authenticate. A good example of this is font services such as
-    Typekit or Hoefler & Co.
-4.  It just looks pretty up there in the URL bar!

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