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.local ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

by phs318u 10y ago

ibotty 10y ago
Unfortunately that is less and less possible due to multicast DNS which hijacked that TLD.
- m_eiman 10y ago
  Isn't .private reserved?
  - josegonzalez 10y ago
    Yes, but that just means they can decide to do something special with it in the future, not that you can use it for your own purposes.
jabl 10y ago
Like the linked wikipedia article says, .local is used by mDNS(zeroconf/bonjour/avahi/etc.), so you might see weird stuff if you use it for a "normal" DNS environment. AFAICT current "best practice" for private networks is to use a private subdomain of your real domain. Say, .internal.example.com.
- tokenizerrr 10y ago
  Google registered the .dev gTLD for their internal use. So I've been doing the same, hijacking all requests for the .dev gTLD and serving up my own zones.
  - noinsight 10y ago
    Google has both .dev and .prod.
  - parenthephobia 10y ago
    That's fine until Google buys your company. :)
    - tokenizerrr 10y ago
      I am willing to take that risk. :)
    - paulddraper 10y ago
      I will not be that sad.
- darfs 10y ago
  That's why i use sometimes simply .loc.. :)
  - tokenizerrr 10y ago
    The annoying part is that Chrome treats valid (g)TLDs differently. If you type test.dev in your browser it will try to resolve test.dev. But if you type test.loc, it will google for test.loc. There are a lot of workarounds sure, but try explaining that to everyone else.
- amyjess 10y ago
  FYI, some Linux distributions default to .localdomain instead. But for my machines, I just use a domain that I own.
DiabloD3 10y ago
.local is for mdns only. I've been using .lan instead for locally poisoned DNS entries (in my case, dnsmasq being both DNS server and dhcpd to make it easy).
lambda 10y ago
No, absolutely not. If people choose that for a local domain, that breaks mDNS.
WorldMaker 10y ago
It would be great if mDNS was reliable enough that you wouldn't need to hack together a private DNS in most cases.

.local ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

by phs318u 10y ago

.local ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

ibotty 10y ago

Unfortunately that is less and less possible due to multicast DNS which hijacked that TLD.

m_eiman 10y ago
Isn't .private reserved?
- josegonzalez 10y ago
  Yes, but that just means they can decide to do something special with it in the future, not that you can use it for your own purposes.

jabl 10y ago

Like the linked wikipedia article says, .local is used by mDNS(zeroconf/bonjour/avahi/etc.), so you might see weird stuff if you use it for a "normal" DNS environment. AFAICT current "best practice" for private networks is to use a private subdomain of your real domain. Say, .internal.example.com.

tokenizerrr 10y ago
Google registered the .dev gTLD for their internal use. So I've been doing the same, hijacking all requests for the .dev gTLD and serving up my own zones.
- noinsight 10y ago
  Google has both .dev and .prod.
- parenthephobia 10y ago
  That's fine until Google buys your company. :)
  - tokenizerrr 10y ago
    I am willing to take that risk. :)
  - paulddraper 10y ago
    I will not be that sad.
darfs 10y ago
That's why i use sometimes simply .loc.. :)
- tokenizerrr 10y ago
  The annoying part is that Chrome treats valid (g)TLDs differently. If you type test.dev in your browser it will try to resolve test.dev. But if you type test.loc, it will google for test.loc. There are a lot of workarounds sure, but try explaining that to everyone else.
amyjess 10y ago
FYI, some Linux distributions default to .localdomain instead. But for my machines, I just use a domain that I own.

DiabloD3 10y ago

.local is for mdns only. I've been using .lan instead for locally poisoned DNS entries (in my case, dnsmasq being both DNS server and dhcpd to make it easy).

lambda 10y ago

No, absolutely not. If people choose that for a local domain, that breaks mDNS.

WorldMaker 10y ago

It would be great if mDNS was reliable enough that you wouldn't need to hack together a private DNS in most cases.