Novice Level

Establish Local Resolution

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30 minutes
  • 3 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

In this hands-on lab, you are tasked with establishing local resolution for a domain name, to permit localized application testing.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Verify the contents and order of /etc/nsswitch.conf.

You’ll want to verify that files comes before hosts, in the hosts section of /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Modify /etc/hosts to include www.example.com.

You will need to modify /etc/hosts to resolve www.example.com to your local IP. Use your local IP: 10.0.1.10.

Verify that you can now connect to the locally running webserver at www.example.com.

You should get the same output if you curl either localhost or www.example.com.

curl localhost

curl www.example.com

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Additional Resources

Your organization's developers have asked you to configure the application server so that it responds to itself over the production domain www.example.com, to facilitate some specific testing scenarios. You will need to configure the host to resolve this domain to its local private IP.

If you don't have experience with vim to edit text files, see: https://linuxacademy.com/cp/courses/lesson/course/6131/lesson/1

You may also find this vim cheat sheet helpful: https://linuxacademy.com/site-content/uploads/2019/05/vim-1.png

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