Wildcards in hosts file

[Shahar Or]

Dear Ones,

It would be great to be able to use wildcards in the hosts file like "127.0.0.1 *.localhost".

I'm not sure what is the upstream for this. Is it EGLIBC? Perhaps glibc?

Blessings,
Shahar

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libc6 2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 23 13:52:38 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eglibc

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

I agree a more flexible /etc/hosts would be nice; I'd agree eglibc would probably be a good place to ask.
It's unlikely this would be fixed in ubuntu itself.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

It would be great to be able to use wildcards in the hosts file like:

"127.0.0.1 *.localhost".

This could serve some flexibility for web developers on their local test machines and such in testing name based virtual hosts in their system. May have other uses...

Thanks,
Shahar