Re: dot internal and mDNS
On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 12:59:45 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote:
> 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.
Possibly because people aren't warned against using it unless they're
on a network that is already using it for Microsoft servers. It would
be simple to add such a warning to the screen below, and perhaps some
advice on home.arpa etc at the same time.
┌─────────────────────────┤ [!!] Configure the network ├────────────────────┐
│ │
│ The domain name is the part of your Internet address to the right of your │
│ host name. It is often something that ends in .com, .net, .edu, or .org. │
│ If you are setting up a home network, you can make something up, but make │
│ sure you use the same domain name on all your computers. │
│ │
│ Domain name: │
│ │
│ _ │
│ │
│ <Go Back> <Continue> │
│ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
With any group of people for whom the second line is useful
information, I think a significant proportion would choose a name
like "local" after reading the third line.
BTW you can't /buy/ your own domain, only rent it—and prompt payment
is required to make sure you keep it.
Cheers,
David.
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