Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 1:32 AM Marco M. <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
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> Am 25.10.2023 um 03:40:46 Uhr schrieb ghe2001:
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> > TLD '.lan' works. As best I can tell on the web, it doesn't exist.
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> Is it intended for that?
> No?
> Then don't use it. It can be used in the future for public domains.
Many folks don't know about the IANA special-use domain names.
Even Linux documentation is bad (from Fedora):
$ cat /etc/hosts
# Loopback entries; do not change.
# For historical reasons, localhost precedes localhost.localdomain:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
localhost6.localdomain6
# 127.0.1.1 is often used for the FQDN of the machine
127.0.1.1 skylake.home.arpa skylake
# See hosts(5) for proper format and other examples:
# 192.168.1.10 foo.mydomain.org foo
# 192.168.1.13 bar.mydomain.org bar
The template should be using example.{com|net|org} or home.arpa, and
not a random domain that is owned by someone:
$ whois mydomain.org | grep -E 'Name|ID'
Domain Name: mydomain.org
Registry Domain ID: 43938f3b31594bc394234043672173ed-LROR
Registrar IANA ID: 228
...
It seems to be a problem of education, at least for some folks.
Jeff
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