This is a utility to easily manage your DNS-entries in /etc/hosts. You can list, add, remove, comment or uncomment entries with it.
For compiling the program Go Lang is required. Please note that it was developed and tested in go1.5.1. It can not be guaranteed that Hosts CLI does also work with other versions of Go.
For Compiling it into the subdirectory bin/ run:
go build -o bin/hosts
If you for example want to add it to your default path for binaries you could run:
go build -o /usr/local/bin/hosts
sudo hosts list
sudo hosts add <ip> <hostname>
So for instance:
sudo hosts add 8.8.8.8 ggdns.com
sudo hosts rm <ip|hostname>
So for instance:
sudo hosts rm 8.8.8.8
but also:
sudo hosts rm ggdns.com
To comment an entry type the following:
sudo hosts com <ip|hostname>
To UNcomment an entry type the following:
sudo hosts ucom <ip|hostname>
So for instance:
sudo hosts com ggdns.com