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> Somebody forgets to renew the domain or thinks there's nothing there because it doesn't resolve from the public internet Not sure about others, but I am not
by zzyzxd 3y ago
> Somebody forgets to renew the domain or thinks there's nothing there because it doesn't resolve from the public internet
Not sure about others, but I am not gonna trust that person to manage my .local network regardless.
> This also works poorly for small and medium organizations where the cost isn't the price, it's the paperwork.
I had been in that position to chase an approval of $20 domain name purchase. Totally worth it. Much less headache than managing a bunch of made up domains and their weird internal name server configs.
- AnthonyMouse 3y ago> Not sure about others, but I am not gonna trust that person to manage my .local network regardless. "Corporate bureaucracies are infallible" is an extremely unrealistic assumption. > Much less headache than managing a bunch of made up domains and their weird internal name server configs. How is an internal domain weirder to configure or less made up than a public one?
- zzyzxd 3y agoI get what you are saying. But managing a .local domain is way harder to get right (Your internal CA, certificate house keeping on all kinds of devices and software running on them, your internal websites talking to an external IdP, VPN and DNS...). Especially when dealing with corporate bureaucracies -- If you don't have skilled engineers to manage .local, then just purchase a real domain and get public CA signed certificates. There will be fewer things that can go wrong.