Set up a free local server on your PC or Mac so you can run a new WordPress site without your work being visible to the world. Nik Rawlinson Nik Rawlinson has been writing about tech since Windows 95 ...

Operating systems like Windows 7 have a special text file that is used locally to map IP address to domain or host names. This file is usually called the "hosts" file. The hosts file can be used to ...

I think I made a local domain server, but I'm not sure. I'm doing it by reading DNS and Bind. I made A records and PTR records for zones. When I type a domain without the dot, I can get IP information ...