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by yjftsjthsd-h 267 days ago
> think /etc/hosts, but without the requirement of superuser privileges.

It would help if you could expand on this. Is this a "don't want devs to need to mess with their boxes" thing, or a "we're doing shadow IT and can't run things the normal way" thing, or something else?

> Running a resolver locally, or within the LAN, falls outside the realm of "simple".

No, it really doesn't. A DNS server can be a single file binary pointed at a simple text file, optionally pointed directly at a hosts-format file. I suggest coredns personally but there are other options.