Wildcard domains in /etc/hosts using NetworkManager

wildcard-etc-hosts-network-manager.md

This gist is based off the fedoramagazine article about NetworkManager's dnsmasq plugin

1. Enable NetworkManager's dnsmasq plugin

$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/00-use-dnsmasq.conf

# Enables the dnsmasq plugin.
[main]
dns=dnsmasq

2. Add some wildcards

$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/00-dot-test.conf

# Resolve all *.test domains to localhost
address=/.test/127.0.0.1

3. Add domains from /etc/hosts

$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/01-use-etc-hosts.conf

# By default, the dnsmasq plugin does not read from /etc/hosts.  
# This forces the plugin to slurp in the file.
#
# If you do not want to write to the /etc/hosts file, you can simply specify another one.
addn-hosts=/etc/hosts

4. Restart NetworkManager

systemctl restart NetworkManager.service