Can regular expression be written in /private/etc/hosts file

Question

abc.local
xyz.local
dumy.local
www.google.com
local.testserver.net

....

Can we write some kind of regular expression or Rule in "hosts" file to redirect certain domains ending .local to certain ip address. like using above domains.

192.168.0.10 *.local
192.168.0.1 www.*
192.168.0.100 local.*.*

// Hosts file path on Mac OS X is /private/etc/hosts and in windows c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc...

Answer 1

No, this is not possible.

See these related questions:

• Wildcards in a hosts file
• Setting up wildcard domains on local host (OS X 10.5)?

Answer 2

This is not possible in the hosts file. For acceptable syntax see this: /etc/hosts file