Submitted by shrop on
Most DNS tools (like dig and nslookup) perform IP lookups against DNS servers, ignoring
/etc/hosts
entries. Luckily, OS X provides the dscacheutil
command to perfom a number of functions including checking local host entries. Below is an example that I used to verify the hostname/IP address combo that my system had registered in /etc/hosts
.
This command helped me resolve an issue I was having. Turns out I had two entries for the host.
$ dscacheutil -q host -a name dashboard.drupalvm.dev
name: dashboard.drupalvm.dev
ip_address: 192.168.88.88