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What should you use for internal records if you don't own a domain?
by josephcsible 3y ago
What should you use for internal records if you don't own a domain?
- ibbtown 3y ago.loc instead of .local government is fine
- josephcsible 3y agoBut that TLD isn't reserved, so couldn't someone register it as a real gTLD tomorrow?
- joshspankit 3y agoYou can use anything that’s not already a domain (and unlikely to be one created by someone else). josephcsibleinternaldomain.com as a spitball
- NewJazz 3y ago.internal
- dylan604 3y agoI've seen .test used in some guides
- yoshamano 3y agohome.arpa https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375
- jaeckel 3y agoOne can also use one of the three .home .corp or .mail as of [0]. I'm not aware of an RFC that writes down that those are OK to use, but if the iCANN already pinky sweared that this is OK, what could go wrong? [0] https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2018-02-04-en#2.c https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2...
- globular-toast 3y ago.home.arpa is meant for this. It's supposed never resolve to any internet address so even if a DNS query ends up outside your network (like if an application handles DNS itself) it won't resolve to an internet address and send data there. You can add .home.arpa to you DNS search path (configurable with DHCP) so you don't have to type it, e.g. if you look up "nas" your computer will try "nas.home.arpa" too.