Let your devices access your machine

The post describes Xip.io as a magic domain name that gives wildcard DNS for any IP address, with an example that resolves a subdomain to 10.0.0.1. It also notes that *.localtest.me does something similar, but only for localhost.

It then says Showoff.io goes further by routing a public IP to your machine. The commands shown are gem install showoff-io and show 3000, after which you can share a URL that reaches localhost.

Reading notes

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• Xip.io provides wildcard DNS for any IP address.
• *.localtest.me works the same way, but only for localhost.
• A domain like foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1.
• Showoff.io routes a public IP to your machine.
• The post gives gem install showoff-io and show 3000 as the setup.
• The result is a shareable URL that really gets through to localhost.