🏷️ Netfox 0.16.6 — a name that pointed at everything
Hey everyone 👋
Small release, but it fixes something that was quietly making a whole column useless.
🏷️ If your Mac's hosts file has a line like 127.0.0.1 shop.local, Local Services was showing shop.local next to every local port that answers on loopback — Raycast, Google Drive, mysqld, all of them. Every line was true. Not one of them told you anything.
📍 A hosts name points at an ADDRESS, not at a service. So now it is said once, above the group: "On this Mac they also answer as localhost and shop.local."
🎯 A name for one specific address stays on its row — that is where it actually distinguishes two listeners from each other.
🕶️ Demo Mode keeps localhost and hides the names you added yourself. They come from your own file, and this text ends up in screenshots.
👉 Free, notarized, macOS 15.6+: https://netfox.app
Curious what other people's hosts files look like — mine is mostly archaeology at this point 😅 What would you want Netfox to make readable next?


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