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Tom Ward
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Tom Ward writes Scraps, a personal blog at tomafro.net about programming and web. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Tom Ward's post on using dscl to add extra hostnames to the loopback address on OS X, as an answer to a question about editing /etc/hosts. Only one comment mentions it.
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What Hacker News says?
I noticed that the default /etc/hosts file has a comment saying not to alter the localhost. # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry. ## 127.0.0.1 localhost It made me wonder what alternatives there were for adding additional hostnames for the loopback IP. This article on dscl ( https://tomafro.net/2009/07/dscl-the-easy-way-to-add-hosts-o... ) is…
Comment linking /2009/07/dscl-the-easy-way-to-add-hosts-on-osx
on “dscl – The Easy Way to Add Hosts on OS X”Submitted Using indexes in Rails as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using indexes in Rails (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted dscl – The Easy Way to Add Hosts on OS X as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infinite sequences in ruby as a story · 1 points
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