[Cialug] Faking DNS

[Dave Weis]

Set up other names for the vhost under your domain in apache. Also don't use absolute url's so tricks like this keep working.


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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org <cialug-bounces at cialug.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Thu May 13 19:41:02 2010
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Faking DNS

Hi, if you need simple testing you can use telnet.

$ telnet 11.22.33.44 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.my-fake-site.com<http://www.my-fake-site.com>

(press enter twice)

You can also test SSL from the command line the same way with a little help:
http://www.bearfruit.org/2008/04/17/telnet-for-testing-ssl-https-websites/

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:09 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net<mailto:lvl at omnitec.net>> wrote:
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
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