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Hosts file not working in OS X Lion 10.7.2 (Fixed)

2011-10-30 | Posted In OSX | Tagged Apple OSX Lion | Leave a comment
After upgrading to OSX Lion 10.7.2, I found that the hosts file no longer worked as expected. I have several entries in my hosts file for local development domains of my sites, i.e; I use 'itnonsense.lcl' as an alias for this site.

After updating Lion, I was getting DNS resolution errors which meant that without workarounds I couldn't get my local domains to work correctly - until now. Fortunately, it is quite an easy fix.

Using a text editor such as TextWrangler, open the hosts file using 'sudo', for example:

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