There is some dot com domain someone has registed and pointed to 127.0.0.1. Something like myserver.com.
I saw this in an answer on a stackoverflow question - but the name of the domain has totally escaped me. Can anyone remember that domain name??
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This should really go to serverfault.com – Tyler Carter Feb 08 '10 at 04:11
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@SigTerm - why were my updates rolled back? – TesterTurnedDeveloper May 29 '12 at 00:01
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@TesterTurnedDeveloper: I haven't noticed that you're the OP, plus it wasn't a question, so I interpreted it as an "invalid edit". If it answers your question, post it as an answer instead - nobody will have a problem with that. – SigTerm May 29 '12 at 12:22
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I run one at loop.iambroken.com.
There are a few other services at that website, too.
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if you are using windows, put
anything.com 127.0.0.1
in %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
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On UNIX-like operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X, etc) the file is simply /etc/hosts. – Arseny Oct 29 '12 at 03:04
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I found this one. somesite.com
Edit: This site has since changed ownership and is no longer useful. Stupid ad pages.
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This might have been the SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/958504/redirect-localhost-through-proxy – si618 Feb 08 '10 at 04:14
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I remember seeing it a while ago on SO, but I don't think that was the one I saw. – Brandon Bodnar Feb 08 '10 at 04:16
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I think this is the one I first saw it http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562954/public-wildcard-domain-name-to-resolve-to-127-0-0-1 – Brandon Bodnar Feb 08 '10 at 04:17
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Who owns the mail server for somesite.com? (Oops, this question belongs on serverfault.) – Windows programmer Feb 08 '10 at 04:18
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A similar cool service: http://readme.localtest.me/. You can download their CA signed SSL cert to install on your own box.
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127.0.0.1 is a local address that points to your computer.
Generally, you use localhost to access this address. I'm not sure if it is by default in your hosts file, but if it isn't, it is generally configured to point to your computer by applications that run servers locally.
My guess is that no one really owns the TLD, and that is simply put there for a placeholder.
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It allows having an HTTPS website with other content served up from the local machine via HTTPS and not have the browser complain. – hookenz Jun 09 '14 at 23:46
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When I was a "child", spending my time on IRC, I used to give people asking for a computer to crack a domain of this kind. I don't know the reason for this, but clearly the DNS has been configured to return 127.0.0.1 as the address for that domain.
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