From: Miguel González miguel_3_gonzalez@yahoo.es
I´m testing a server and try to simulate a server in production. We have a SSL certificate and I have configured the test server with the same servername as it is in production. To access it, I change the hosts file in my laptop to reach the test server. However, the Java application running in the server tries to access some local web content. I have changed the hosts file and some applications (ping, wget) they get the local IP address. However nslookup and maybe our Java application (I didn´t have the programmer available to debug it) are getting the production server IP.
Or, if you have access to your DNS, you could add a view with match-clients for your IP and a dedicated file that would resolve to your local server IP.
JD