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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:
>
> Am 25.10.2023 um 03:40:46 Uhr schrieb ghe2001:
>
> > TLD '.lan' works.  As best I can tell on the web, it doesn't exist.
>
> 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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