Document how to configure Linux to resolve *.localhost domains
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Description
Not all Linux distributions resolve `*.localhost` to `127.0.0.1`. We should include documentation for how to configure your linux distro to do this:
* Use a recursive resolver that supports synthetic records for `*.localhost`.
* Modify `/etc/nsswitch.conf` to include `myhostname` (see `nsswitch.conf(5)`).
Additionally, most browsers (firefox? chrome?) auto-resolve `*.localhost`. We should document which ones do this.
This all goes in docs/gateway.md.
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