How to put wildcard entry into /etc/hosts?

Question

I recently wanted to point all subdomains for a test domain, let\'s say example.com to the localhost. Is there a way to point all requests on *.example.com to resolve to 127

Answer 1

use dnsmasq

pretending you're using a debian-based dist(ubuntu,mint..), check if it's installed with

(sudo) systemctl status dnsmasq

If it is just disabled start it with

(sudo) systemctl start dnsmasq

If you have to install it, write

(sudo) apt-get install dnsmasq

To define domains to resolve edit /etc/dnsmasq.conf like this

address=/example.com/127.0.0.1

to resolve *.example.com

! You need to reload dnsmasq to take effect for the changes !

systemctl reload dnsmasq