On Sat 14 Dec 2019 at 10:08:56 (+0000), mick crane wrote: > On 2019-12-14 03:04, Jape Person wrote: > > > I could be quite wrong, but I thought that "local" was actually > > suggested as a domain name at one time by the installer. (And I could > > be remembering a different distro, though I've been using Debian for a > > long time -- at least 10 years, I think.) I suppose I just continued > > to use it over the years out of habit. > > I had the same thing a while back. I too always thought .local was the > recommendation and at the time .home was used by a phone company so > thought it best not to use that.
Which phone company was that, and when? > Seem to remember having trouble tracking down everywhere it is > mentioned. That's one reason I use corp: grepping /etc hits occurrences of home and mail, but none of corp (except the ones I've added). Cheers, David.
