Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention
On 12/14/2019 2:36 PM, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-12-14, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 19:33:51 (-0500), Jape Person wrote:
>>> Hi folks. Did I miss something?
>>
>> Perhaps a couple of references:
>> https://features.icann.org/addressing-new-gtld-program-applications-corp-home-and-mail
>> which points out that any of .home, .mail and .corp are ideal for the
>> domain name of a home LAN, and RFC 6762 on Multicast DNS which
>> explains why .local is not a good choice.
>>
>
> I'm trying to fathom why .home would remain ideal for home LAN users in
> light of RFC 8375, which replaces the previously advised '.home' with
> 'home.arpa' as the default domain name for homenets, the former being
> known to often leak out to the root name servers.
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8375
>
> Or does RFC 8378 only apply to toasters and the like (what will they
> think of next)?
>
It only applies to devices useing the HNCP protocol.
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John Doe
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