devdns

Simple Development DNS Server written in Python. This server will route all whatever *.dev domain names to 127.0.0.1. So you can quickly start a new project without touching your system's host file.

Installation

Clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/ball6847/devdns.git
cd devdns

Setup environment and dependencies, you need python virtualenv or virtualenvwrapper.

mkvirtualenv devdns 
pip install -r requirements.txt

Start devdns

sudo twistd -y devdns.py

And there you go.

For any reason you need to run this server in non-daemonize mode eg. running under Supervisor. You can start server using -ny options like this.

sudo twistd -ny devdns.py

One last step. Edit /etc/resolv.conf to make your system using localhost as a DNS. Just open /etc/resolv.conf with your preferred text editor (you may need super user privilege)

nameserver 127.0.0.1

Todo

Provide instruction for Windows
Provide instruction on disabling dnsmasq in Ubuntu NetworkManager
Use twisted application module
Simple configuration file
Auto backup/restore /etc/resolv.conf upon server start or stop
DNS caching

Credit

This script inspired by this gist https://gist.github.com/johnboxall/1147973, written by John Boxall