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pls excuse my aged brain, now with a new blood clot. IIRC adding 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 to your hosts file helps ??? On macOS; % ping 0.0.0.0 PING 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0)

• TacticalCoder 2y ago
  > IIRC adding 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 to your hosts file helps ? Yup because typically you're not running a webserver on 0.0.0.0, especially not one that listen on ports 80/443 (say in dev you may be listening to 8080 or something). I mean: on Linux if you ping 0.0.0.0 (or the shortcut "ping 0"), you'll be getting answers from 127.0.0.1. But as I don't run a webserver on my machine (except a dev one at times, on a specific port which is not 80/443/8080 etc.), routing domains to 0.0.0.0 still works. I also used in the past dnsmasq to automatically reply NX_DOMAIN when the browser attempts to resolve 0.0.0.0 but atm I'm not even bothering (maybe I should do it again after reading TFA though). P.S: it's another aging brain answering, so take this with a grain of salt