Re: Temporary failure in name resolution
On 2024-01-12, debian-user@howorth.org.uk <debian-user@howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
>> On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might not be
>> > really safe (somebody might register it). A reserved domain is
>> > "home.arpa" so e.g. to have "thinkpad", the /etc/hosts entry should
>> > be
>> >
>> > 127.0.1.1 thinkpad.home.arpa thinkpad
>> >
>>
>> The .arpa domain is the “Address and Routing Parameter Area” domain
>> and is designated to be used exclusively for Internet-infrastructure
>> purposes.
>>
>> https://www.iana.org/domains/arpa
>
> Indeed, and a little way down that page it says:
>
> home.arpa For non-unique use in residential home networks
> RFC 8375
I missed that.
Yet the reserved gTLDs from the 2018 ICANN resolution are .home, .corp,
and .mail. Does home.arpa comply with that resolution?
>:P
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