Use /etc/hosts to direct wildcard domain name
You need to set up a DNS server. (install dnsmasq (is light) or bind (is rather heavy)). To install ...
sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
In /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/dnsmasq-localhost.conf
add
address=/localhost.com/127.0.0.1
restart
sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
Important note.
If dnsmasq
service failed to start, please check your service logs by running systemctl status dnsmasq.service
command.
Then, If you will see the following message in the logs Failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
- you may resolve this error as described here