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Also worth noting that "home.arpa" is already reserved and specifically designed for residential use. It will never conflict with anything.

• Mountain_Skies 3y ago
  And is nine characters long, which is cumbersome for those using it in an IOT context where data entry is often not straightforward.
  • fastball 3y ago
    Huh?
    • Filligree 3y ago
      Typing it on your TV with a laggy UI where you can only select letters using arrow keys. Which only work half the time, and also it isn’t QWERTY.
      • globular-toast 3y ago
        It's so sad this is still necessary. We've had service discovery via avahi/zeroconf for years. Why does it seem like uPNP has been and gone? It shouldn't be necessary to type hostnames any more.
  • loktarogar 3y ago
    so, exactly the same as .internal
    • eqvinox 3y ago
      You didn't quite count that right with the dots ;)
• scraplab 3y ago
  I use this, mostly for the .arpa vibes.
  • sph 3y ago
    I avoid it for the same reason. The ARPANET branch of the US Department of Defense feels anything but home to me.
    • yrro 3y ago
      Would it relax you to know that it has been retconned into "Address Routing Paramater Area"?
• ahoka 3y ago
  I use it and it’s very confusing for my guests.