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Establish Local Resolution

In this hands-on lab, you are tasked with establishing local resolution for a domain name, to permit localized application testing.

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Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 30m
Published
Clock icon Nov 14, 2018

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Verify the contents and order of /etc/nsswitch.conf.

    You'll want to verify that files comes before hosts, in the hosts section of /etc/nsswitch.conf.

  2. Challenge

    Modify /etc/hosts to include www.example.com.

    You will need to modify /etc/hosts to resolve www.example.com to your local IP. Use your local IP: 10.0.1.10.

  3. Challenge

    Verify that you can now connect to the locally running webserver at www.example.com.

    You should get the same output if you curl either localhost or www.example.com.

    curl localhost

    curl www.example.com

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