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Introduction
It is possible to override internet DNS records locally for your own computer by manually specifying a DNS record hostname IP address using your computers HOSTS file. This will force your computer you resolve an internet name to the IP address you have specified rather than the IP address that will resolve if your computer was to check the public internet nameservers for that domain. The approach will also work for computer hostnames or ip addresses that operate on your internal network.
This feature comes in handy in a number circumstations such as
- You want to test or design a new website address on a different web server IP address, without changing the current live web server IP address.
- You have not yet registered the domain name or hostname, or do not have control
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