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There are many DNS names options. Which one do you use?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to IETF, you should only use .intranet, .internal, .private, .corp, .home or .lan for your private network ( RFC 6762 Appendix G ). Using other TLDs might cause issues in the future, especially since new gTLDs seems to show up every few months or so, which can collide with the TLD you use for your local network.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@redcalcium
Really? Not .local? Why is it the default on so much?
@zephyr

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@sifrmoja
Ah, yep. Now that you say it. Thanks for cluing me in.
@redcalcium @zephyr

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A long time ago Microsoft and some teaching sources used .local in example documentation for local domains and it stuck. Like contoso.com was Microsoft's example company. I was taught to use .local decades ago and it took a very long time to unlearn it.

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