Fedora: Redirect an entire TLD to your machine without touching the hosts file

In just a few minutes, you can redirect an entire TLD (for example *.test ) to your machine using dnsmasq. 

Installing the software 

sudo dnf install dnsmasq -y

Configuration

Edit the /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file to add the line dns=dnsmasq at the end of the [main] section.

sudo vim /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

Back up the /etc/resolv.conf file

sudo mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.back

Copy the NetworkManager one 

sudo cp /var/run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

Create the alias file: 

echo 'address=/test/127.0.0.1' | sudo tee /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/dot.test-wildcard.conf

if you want a TLD other than test, change the /test/ part

Restart the services

sudo service dnsmasq restart
sudo systemctl reload NetworkManager

And the test: 

ping monsite.test                                                                                             ─╯
PING monsite.test (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.111 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.023 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms