hosts-override

Override hosts file entries for the lifetime of the process

Installation

MacOS (Homebrew via own tap)

$ brew install rcaught/hosts-override/hosts-override

MacOS (manually)

$ curl -Ls https://github.com/rcaught/hosts-override/releases/latest/download/macos.zip > /tmp/hosts-override.zip
$ unzip /tmp/hosts-override.zip -d /usr/local/bin

Linux

$ curl -Ls https://github.com/rcaught/hosts-override/releases/latest/download/linux.zip > /tmp/hosts-override.zip
$ unzip /tmp/hosts-override.zip -d /usr/local/bin

Windows

• Download https://github.com/rcaught/hosts-override/releases/latest/download/windows.zip
• Unzip the file and run the exe as Administrator

Usage

Mac / Linux

• Override myhost.com to resolve to 127.0.0.1

  $ sudo hosts-override myhost.com,127.0.0.1
  

• google.com will be resolved into an IP / set of IPs

  $ sudo hosts-override myhost.com,google.com
  

• Multiple hosts and values are supported

  $ sudo hosts-override myhost.com,127.0.0.1 anotherhost.com,127.0.0.1
  

• Refresh of unresolved hosts (with custom interval)

  $ sudo hosts-override -r -i=1m myhost.com,127.0.0.1
  

Windows

• Run Command Prompt as Administrator and navigate to the directory containing hosts-override.exe

• hosts-override.exe myhost.com,127.0.0.1
  

Notes

• sudo or running as Administrator is required as the hosts file is owned by root
• On exiting the program with an interupt (CTRL-c), the hosts file is cleaned of appended records
• In the case of an unclean shutdown, the next invocation of hosts-override will clear the previous sessions records
• IPv4 and IPv6 addresses supported