On 8/3/24 09:00, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi, On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:40:32PM +1000, George at Clug wrote:I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ?home.arpa was defined by IANA in 2018. If they go ahead with .internal then I can only imagine it will be in addition to, not instead of, home.arpa.How could this affect mDNS and the use of .local?It won't. mDNS will continue using .local. If you use .local for other things it can interfere with mDNS but picking almost anything else has very few repercussions (unless you are very silly about it), so I don't understand why this topic always generates so much debate on this list. Thanks, Andy
I can hint at some of the problems Andy. Because I'm about to try to bring another bpi-m5 up to run amanda in a 8 to 16 t-byte all solid state NAS.
The coders in charge have gone way beyond just hiding a sensible way of setting hostname and domainname without using some other tool that isn't even intuitively named. You can put the arm64 boot media into another machine, mount it and edit both /etc/hostname and /etc/domainname with nano, write a copy of your /etc/hosts file to that media. then umount it, put it back in the target machine, boot it, and both files are wiped & gone. Why????
The machine has no damned idea of what its domain and hostname is. Prefilling /etc/hosts with the correct data is a waste of time until that is configured by the correct tool, Why????
And if it has to be that difficult to bring up a new machine on your local 192.168.xxx.zzz unroutable network, why the heck do we not have a fill in the blanks script to do that. This is 2024, not 1985 and AT&T's Unix-3.3. There's no excuse for that level of difficulty to exist in 2024.
I'll admit that network-mangler has now learned how to do much of that once you have the names set, but why did it take a decade to reach that state? It should have been fixed by the end of wheezy.
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