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Andrejs Cainikovs
Asked: 2010-04-16 03:34:31 +0800 CST

How to get the same result as modifying /etc/hosts file, without root access?

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The question is simple: no root access, but need to point particular domain name to the specified IP address.

What are the other ways to do the same thing as with adding the record to /etc/hosts file?

UPDATE:

Clarification:
My domain had been expired, but I still want to gain the access to it from corporate network (no root privileges on my linux workstation) by it's domain name for: http, https, imaps, smtps, ftp, and couple of specific ports.

domain-name-system hosts

2 Answers

  1. You could LD_PRELOAD in your own versions of gethostby{addr,name..} which read /etc/hosts and then the users own hosts file in their homedirectory.

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  2. The server is using a nameserver right ? (cat /etc/resolv.conf) so you could, if you have access, configure it to return a specific IP address for a particular domain.

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