Mac OS X Things | mac http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw hints and notes for the mac os x folks Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:02:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Forcing an IP Address http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/forcing-an-ip-address/ http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/forcing-an-ip-address/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:00:20 +0000 face http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/?p=367 In the “real” world you simply add an entry to /etc/hosts like

1.2.3.4 myhost

The Mac OS X world is different. For version 10.5 and later you do the following

# Create the mapping
sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Hosts/x.y.z IPAddress 127.0.0.1
# flush the cache
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

# Show the mappings
sudo dscl localhost -readall /Local/Default/Hosts

# Delete a mapping
sudo dscl localhost -delete /Local/Default/Hosts/x.y.z
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

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