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1. A PSA: Lion and .local Domain Names September 2011

   Do you enjoy your hair? Would you prefer not to pull it out while waiting for your local Apache server on Mac OS X to deliver a page to you?

   If you use Mac OS X Lion and have development sites set up at .local addresses, you should immediately move them to any other fake TLD. The .local address space is resolved for Bonjour and as a result any request to a .local name will not hit /etc/hosts first, but will search for Bonjour hosts first.

   I found this Stack Exchange question on the subject tonight after getting frustrated with curl seemingly hanging for several seconds on each request.

   Instead, I switched all of my local dev sites from $DOMAIN.local to $DOMAIN.dev. The results are staggering.

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