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My work used .local which means mDNS and service discovery etc doesn't work. Very annoying. What are they teaching these network admins? Why don't they even kno
by globular-toast 3y ago
My work used .local which means mDNS and service discovery etc doesn't work. Very annoying. What are they teaching these network admins? Why don't they even know what a domain name is for?
- mtillman 3y agoSimilar issue with modern devs that don’t know what a page of memory is.
- londons_explore 3y agoOr don't even know the bandgap of the transistors the computer is running off.
- ahoka 3y agoYeah, developers nowadays don’t know their Pauli exclusion principle.
- HackerThemAll 3y agoor a database.
- HackerThemAll 3y agoThank Apple for designing the protocol the Apple way, that is being not interoperable with the world.
- JonathonW 3y agoYes, the classic not-interoperable approach of publishing the protocol as Standards Track RFCs with the IETF.
- p_l 3y agoThe timeline was IIRC 1. MS made recommendations to use .local 2. Apple networks started to use Bonjour and used .local, breaking on networks that used .local already 3. RFC was submitted 4. MS recommended against using .local or any domain you do not own fully
- Uvix 3y agoEven if they know now, that doesn’t mean they knew when setting up the AD domain back in 2000.
- patmorgan23 3y agoMicrosoft's recommendation in the early 2000's was to use .local