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Lvh.me no longer resolving to localhost?

3 pointsby raasdnilalmost 4 years ago
This morning I found that lvh.me is no longer responding to localhost and is instead resolving to 34.98.99.30<p>Looks like the domain has expired.<p>Anyone know who the owner is or how I can help in sponsoring getting this set back up again? It&#x27;s a free tool, but it&#x27;s used by a lot of developers.

5 comments

raasdnilalmost 4 years ago
Just did some testing and it seems like the latest Chrome and Firefox browsers both support *.localhost, so this is a good replacement.<p>Works also with port numbers, eg <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.localhost:3000&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.localhost:3000&#x2F;</a>
robbiejsalmost 4 years ago
I don&#x27;t know lvh.me, but it sounds similar to nip.io and xip.io.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to rely on a free service to point to your localhost, I recommand ngrok.io. I believe they have a free plan. It works with your virtual hosts as well :-)
beprogrammedalmost 4 years ago
This seems like a terrible practice, localhost should resolve to localhost a TLD of its own. Having some random entity controlling a domain at the .me TLD, and using that in a processes is just asking for trouble.
clusmorealmost 4 years ago
Not an answer to your actual question but you might be able to switch to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readme.localtest.me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readme.localtest.me&#x2F;</a> instead.
raasdnilalmost 4 years ago
GoDaddy are now showing the domain name is expired and parked. Having a bad actor take control of this domain would not be a fantastic outcome.