Comments on: OS X 10.5.7 - /etc/hosts, no! dscl, yes! http://synapse.neural9.com/os-x-1057-etchosts-no-sudo-dscl-yes/ Web design and development musings from the minds at Neural 9 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:05:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: jona http://synapse.neural9.com/os-x-1057-etchosts-no-sudo-dscl-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-88 jona Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:41:45 +0000 http://synapse.neural9.com/?p=300#comment-88 Thanks for the tip ... this is how you would type these dscl commands as a single command from the shell: sudo dscl . create Hosts/192.168.112.2o7.net IPAddress 127.0.0.1 sudo dscl . delete Hosts/192.168.112.2o7.net OR sudo dscl /Local/Default create Hosts/192.168.112.2o7.net IPAddress 127.0.0.1 sudo dscl /Local/Default delete Hosts/192.168.112.2o7.net Thanks for the tip … this is how you would type these dscl commands as a single command from the shell:

sudo dscl . create Hosts/192.168.112.2o7.net IPAddress 127.0.0.1
sudo dscl . delete Hosts/192.168.112.2o7.net

OR

sudo dscl /Local/Default create Hosts/192.168.112.2o7.net IPAddress 127.0.0.1
sudo dscl /Local/Default delete Hosts/192.168.112.2o7.net

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