On 2019-12-14, Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> wrote:
I could be quite wrong, but I thought that "local" was actually suggested as a domain name at one
time by the installer. (And I could be remembering a different distro, though I've been using Debian
for a long time -- at least 10 years, I think.) I suppose I just continued to use it over the years
out of habit.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762
3. Multicast DNS Names
...
To remedy this problem [of home computer users generally lacking easy access
to name creation in the global DNS namespace*], this document allows any
computer user to elect to give their computers link-local Multicast DNS host
names of the form: "single-dns-label.local".
...
This document specifies that the DNS top-level domain ".local." is a
special domain with special semantics, namely that any fully
qualified name ending in ".local." is link-local, and names within
this domain are meaningful only on the link where they originate.
Has RFC 6762 been superseded? Or have I gotten this wrong?