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Enter your administrator password when prompted. The first command requires administrator privileges to create a file containing the domain configuration under the `/etc/resolver` directory, and to tell the macOS DNS resolver to reload its configuration files.

With the domain set to `test`, if you use `--name my-web-server` to start a container, queries to `my-web-server.test` will respond with that container's IP address. You can customize the domain in `~/.config/container/config.toml`.
See [Customize `container` default configuration values](./container-system-config-tutorial.md) for instructions on how to set the default domain name that the `container` service uses for container name resolution on the host. With the default domain set to `test`, if you use `--name my-web-server` to start a container, queries to `my-web-server.test` will respond with that container's IP address.

## Build an image

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open http://192.168.64.3
```

If you configured the local domain `test` earlier in the tutorial, you can also open the page with the full hostname for the container:
If you configured the default domain name `test` for the `container` service earlier in the tutorial, you can also open the page with the full hostname for the container:

```bash
open http://my-web-server.test
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