xip.io - a great little DNS tool for developers

alex

http://xip.io/

upfreak

Nice & Bookmarked. Thanks @alex for the find.

Noerman

Wow, thanks. Bookmarked.

udk

Am I missing the point of this - you have to include the IP anyway, why not just use the IP? So many (free) places can provide a better/more useful service.

Bogdacutuu

@udk said: Am I missing the point of this - you have to include the IP anyway, why not just use the IP? So many (free) places can provide a better/more useful service.

CNAME?

vld

@udk said: Am I missing the point of this - you have to include the IP anyway, why not just use the IP? So many (free) places can provide a better/more useful service.

One use case: www vhosts.

jar

Totally cool. Thanks for sharing!

vRozenSch00n

Awesome. Thanks tor sharing.

jh

Cool!

DStrout

Interesting. Wonder if there would be any way to incorporate IPv6.

sudoed

I just use Hosts files, but in linux and windows environments

Bogdacutuu

@sudoed said: I just use Hosts files, but in linux and windows environments

The point is not to have to do that.
You can't always edit the hosts file.

MrAndroid

I've been looking for something like this where I don't need to edit the hosts file constantly. Thanks!

mojeda

Sweet, thanks!

twain

You can also of course do this yourself on your own dns server (or any) with the domain of your choice.

FFFlip

For linux at least you can easily set this up with dnsmasq; install dnsmasq then (ubuntu for example) edit /etc/dnsmasq.d/my-dev-tld (new file) and add
address=/my-dev-tld/127.0.0.1
the restart dnsmasq.

I've got mine working for .loc - avoid using .local & .localdomain to prevent conflicts.

kandosan

already ddos, guys stop it god damm u LOL

Server not found

      Firefox can't find the server at www.xip.io.

DStrout

The server at www.xip.io is taking too long to respond.

twain

try w/o the dub dub dub:

jbrown@jbrown-ubuntu:~$ host www.xip.io
www.xip.io has address 160.166.0.0
Host www.xip.io not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Host www.xip.io not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

jbrown@jbrown-ubuntu:~$ host xip.io
xip.io has address 173.45.254.247
Host xip.io not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Host xip.io not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Ishaq

@DStrout said: Wonder if there would be any way to incorporate IPv6.

My thoughts exactly.

yomero

@FFFlip said: For linux at least you can easily set this up with dnsmasq;

So, isn't rocket science at all?

FFFlip

@yomero said: So, isn't rocket science at all?

Nope