Windows redirect traffic to different DNS name not fixed IP address (hosts file equivalent)
- by Arik Raffael Funke
Using the Windows hosts file, one can redirect traffic for a domain to a specific IP address, e.g.
domainA.com -- 127.0.0.1
I am looking for a SIMPLE way to do the same, but for a target domain name not for a target IP address (as this is dynamic), I.e.
domainA.com -- domainB.com
Addition:
After the getting some initial answers I think I need to concretise my question.
Situation: I have an application which looks up the IP of the target domain via DNS and then connects via HTTP to the IP address. I do not have control over any proxy settings.
Option 1
Basically I am looking for a way to:
intercept DNS requests for a
domainA.com
launch a DNS request for a
domainB.com
serve the IP of domainB.com in
response to the request for
domainA.com
Without running an entire DNS server.
Option 2
If a DNS server is the only way, in the alternative I would also be happy with an solution to how to define a non-standard DNS-server for a single application. Any ideas for wrapper applications, etc?
