[Wylug-help] How to Query the DNS

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Dave Whiteley wrote:

> Booo Hooooo!
>
> I would like to be able to look in the httpd.conf, but...
>
> This IP has at various times hosted all sorts of sites, and I have
> removed them from the .conf when they have become redundant.  I am now
> putting a new one on there, and I was wondering if there were any of
> the old names still in the DNS that I could temporarily misuse for
> testing purposes.

Personally I just invent one and misuse it for testing.

Let us create www.fickle-fisherman.com.  Slap it into you /etc/hosts file on
the client machine, setup the virtual server end and you're away.  I assume
there's some equivalent trick in windows to add hosts.

It never has to exist anywhere in DNS.

jh

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