Managing Hostnames and IP Addresses
Mac OS X consults both the /etc/hosts file and the /machines portion of the local directory. For example, the following entry in /etc/hosts would map the hostname xyzzy to 192.168.0.1:
192.168.0.1 xyzzy
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