An alternative to messing with /etc/hosts (or your DNS) every time you make "local" changes in MAMP is to have Bonjour automatically multicast MAMP's .local domains on the network. No messing with /etc/hosts and domains can be accessed from any mac on the network... and no more slow .local DNS resolving. I'm not going back to /etc/hosts...
An alternative to messing with /etc/hosts (or your DNS) every time you make "local" changes in MAMP is to have Bonjour automatically multicast MAMP's .local domains on the network. No messing with /etc/hosts and domains can be accessed from any mac on the network... and no more slow .local DNS resolving. I'm not going back to /etc/hosts...