Switch firefox to use a different DNS than what is in the windows.host file

Question

For example, I have a development site on a different server but I\'m trying to copy content over from the live site so it\'d be handy to have the live site in IE and the dev si

Answer 1

It appears from your question that you already have a second set of DNS servers available that reference the development site instead of the live site.

I would suggest that you simply run a standard SOCKS proxy either on that DNS server system or on a low-end spare system and have that system configured to use the development DNS server. You can then tell Firefox to use that proxy instead of downloading pages directly.

Doing it this way, the actual DNS lookups will be done on the proxy machine and not on the machine that's running the web browser.