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*.local is a great example of why not to use a domain that just 'sounds good' as an internal dns suffix, as it is used by bonjour/avahi[1] I had to rename an e
by stock_toaster 15y ago
*.local is a great example of why not to use a domain that just 'sounds good' as an internal dns suffix, as it is used by bonjour/avahi[1]
I had to rename an entire corporate network once because the previous folks thought .local "looked good". It cause constant issues with clients that had bonjour or avahi running.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
- bigiain 15y agoHere's my hand up admitting I made that mistake back in the day. At least it was only our staging server cluster, and not an entire network...
- drzaiusapelord 15y agoWait, why doesnt apple just fix its software? .local isn't reserved. Seems like picking some arbitrary fix over another isn't helping matters.
- sipefree 15y agoBecause in 99.9999% of use cases it won't break. That, and mDNS already being used as a psuedo-standard with things like Avahi.
- lambda 15y agoWell, .local would be reserved if the mDNS draft, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-14 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdn... , ever progressed to an actual RFC. It is already a de-facto standard, with several implementations.