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Override DNS in Firefox

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Mar 15, 202664341 views
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I'm looking for a way to override DNS entries in Firefox, for development/testing purposes. I know the normal way to do this is via the file, but I cannot edit it since I don't have admin access on my work machine. Does anyone know of a browser plugin/addon which would do this for me? I did find th…

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One possibility is to have a socks 5 server on a machine that you have administrative control on, set up this machine as your socks proxy in firefox, and change in to . In theory, all DNS lookups should be done through the proxy, so you should be ab…

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