I have a small home LAN consisting of three machines, one of which connects the LAN to my ISP over a dial-up connection. I was wondering what domain name to use for the LAN. What I have in mind is something similar to the IP address space(s) reserved for private use (such as 192.168.*.*)
While searching the web I found a pointer to RFC 2606 which lists four top level domains reserved for private use and testing (.test, .example, .invalid, and .localhost). I seems to me that ".invalid" would be suitable for a dial-up machine with a dynamic IP address. Is this actually the canonical way? And the (Debian specific ;) question is: is anybody using host names like "<hostname>.localnet.invalid" on a Debian machine? Will this work with standard Debian tools such as Exim, i.e. can I use it just like any other (unregistered) domain name or should I expect certain apps to actually treat it as invalid (and bouce mail, for example)? -TIA -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
