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donatj ◴[10 Apr 25 15:05 UTC] No.43644579[source]▶
We add a real actual DNS record for the local. subdomain pointing to 127.0.0.1

It works really well and means no setup on our developers machines

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oulipo ◴[10 Apr 25 16:04 UTC] No.43645280[source]▶
Can you expand on this? you redirect *.local.example.com to 127.0.0.1, and then how do you setup the local machine so that eg myservice.local.example.com hits the correct port? I guess you still need a proxy somewhere? or you specify eg myservice.local.example.com:3000 ?
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1. donatj ◴[10 Apr 25 18:00 UTC] No.43646484[source]▶
It's not a redirect. It's an actual A record on the domain for local.example.com -> 127.0.0.1

Then we just have an entry for local.example.com in our vhosts and bam everything works as expected. No need to mess with /etc/hosts