[Cialug] Faking DNS

[L. V. Lammert]

Say you have a name-based server configuration, .. the only way to test
a site is to fake your local DNS in order to pass the correct URL in the
link to the IP of your test server.

That works fine if you are controlling the machine [i.e. edit the hosts
file and substitute the test IP for that domain name], .. but how do you
'give' a URL to the client to view?

Any redirection would break the test as the first time you click a link on
the test site it would direct to the 'real' site.

	Lee