Re: apparent change in hostnames on LAN without admin intervention
On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 10:08:56 (+0000), mick crane wrote:
> On 2019-12-14 03:04, Jape Person 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.
>
> I had the same thing a while back. I too always thought .local was the
> recommendation and at the time .home was used by a phone company so
> thought it best not to use that.
Which phone company was that, and when?
> Seem to remember having trouble tracking down everywhere it is
> mentioned.
That's one reason I use corp: grepping /etc hits occurrences of home
and mail, but none of corp (except the ones I've added).
Cheers,
David.
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