Article 51941 RHEL7 - Set an alias/nickname for an IP to be access via firefox (without root)

RHEL7 - Set an alias/nickname for an IP to be access via firefox (without root)

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Plankt0n
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I've duckduckgo'd for this but unable to find anything that can help me out.
The scenario is:

OS: 7.5 (Maipo)
Firefox 60.2.0esr

I have webservers setup that I can access by IP only since this is a test environment with no control over dns etc. The amount of servers are increasing and browsing to them by IP is starting to get tedious. What I want to do is to set an alias. Just like on windows where you can edit the hosts file to point an IP/fqdn to another source.

The tricky part is that I dont have root access on the jumpserver. Is this possible?

For instance being able to typ in http://backupserver in the browser and it gets re-directed to 132.196.1.2 etc.latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=Zy4Stu-JZoc:qXJ9GQ5tRcs:F7zBnMy latest?i=Zy4Stu-JZoc:qXJ9GQ5tRcs:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=Zy4Stu-JZoc:qXJ9GQ5tRcs:gIN9vFwZy4Stu-JZoc
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