thehatfox@lemmy.world to Sysadmin@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domainwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domainwww.theregister.comthehatfox@lemmy.world to Sysadmin@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down7·10 months ago.local already exists. More idiocy from ICANN.
minus-squarePup Biru@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up34·edit-210 months ago.local exists for a very specific reason and it’s not meant to be used by regular DNS… people use it for alternate things, but it’s reserved for mDNS if .internal were to be added, we could start using that instead of overloading!
minus-squareLordCrom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months ago.local is a bad choice especially if you have any MAC hosts on the network. There is an RFC about that, but I’m too sleepy to goook it up
.local already exists. More idiocy from ICANN.
.local exists for a very specific reason and it’s not meant to be used by regular DNS… people use it for alternate things, but it’s reserved for mDNS
if .internal were to be added, we could start using that instead of overloading!
.local is a bad choice especially if you have any MAC hosts on the network.
There is an RFC about that, but I’m too sleepy to goook it up