localhost under your own domain
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To interact with localhost, you can use 127.0.0.1.
In certain scenarios, you may need a domain name though.
You could use nip.io:
dead simple wildcard DNS for any IP Address
…for example, via 127.0.0.1.nip.io.
Or you could use local.gd e.g. localhost.local.gd.
But what if you wanted to eliminate the dependence on third-parties and, instead, do this yourself?
Assuming you have your own domain, create the following DNS record – I’ll use my
own perrotta.dev domain as an example:
A localhost.perrotta.dev 127.0.0.1Then whenever I ping localhost.perrotta.dev, it will end up pinging
127.0.0.1.