I installed my acrylic dns proxy to enable some redirect addresses to localhost, so I can redirect certain domain names to my local machine, without any need to watch anything on the Internet (I do not have Internet access in places where I am developing a long story).
anywyas, everything works fine when i'm connected to the internet
however, when I try to access local domains when my Internet connection is disconnected (and this happens quite often in my case), the web browser simply ignores dns and does not even check it, instantly rewriting me with the error message "no internet connection "
browsers seem to check Windows host files for local addresses, but ignore my dns proxy containing a more complex redirection that the Windows hosts file is simply not able to disconnect. now I don’t know how to hack firefox / chrome to check for dns, even though my internet connection is disconnected.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
details of dns proxy settings (if anyone is interested):
*. my.dev.local translates to 127.0.0.1
Then I use .htaccess to redirect user1.my.dev.local, user2.my.dev.loca, etc. to specific user profiles of my site.
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