Testing your domain on DDoSX¶

Linux¶

Edit the file /etc/hosts to include your domain and subdomains and point these to the IP that has been assigned to your protected domain.

Firstly open up the Terminal and then edit the file using your file editor of choice

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Enter your DDoSX IP example.org www.example.org at the bottom of the file then save the file. You can now browse example.org and www.example.org and you will view the website as you would through ddosx.

su -

Password: ********

vi /etc/hosts

Alternatively if you don’t have root access you can use the curl command for example:

IPv4:

curl -H "Host: example.org" https://<replace_with_ddosx_ip>/ -k

IPv6:

curl -H "Host: example.org" https://<replace_with_ipv6_ddosx_ip>/ -gk

However this will return the site in plain HTML and might not give you a true representative of what your site looks like through DDoSX compared to loading it via your web browser.

macOS¶

You need to open up the Terminal app and then run the command

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

Enter your DDoSX IP example.org www.example.org at the bottom of the file then save the file. You can now browse example.org and www.example.org and you will view the website as you would through DDoSX.

Windows 7/8/10¶

• Right click on Notepad and click Run As Administrator

• Select File > Open

• Browser to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

• At the bottom right change the file type to All Files

• Open the file called hosts

• Edit this file by adding your DDoSX IP example.org www.example.org and save. For example:

1.2.3.4 example.org www.example.org