On Mon 16 Dec 2019 at 12:28:13 (+0000), Bonno Bloksma 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 > > Don't know if Debian did that but ... a LOONG time ago, at least looong in > "internet years", it was indeed recommended to use the "real" domain name for > the servers that could be reached from the internet and to use the same corp > part but .local as TLD for the internal network. That was supposed to avoid > confusion with duplicate names in use for different servers/services. > In our case I was supposed to use tio.nl for public stuff and tio.local for > internal stuff.
Sounds like: https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2195190&seqNum=2 dated May 15, 2011. > Me, I never understood that. If it has the same name it should be the same > server/service, both internal and external. For internal stuff I simply use a > subdomain name like staff.tio.nl for stuff that relates to the staff and > student.tio.nl for stuff that relates to the students. > But.... at one time it was the "official policy" to use .local for internal > stuff. It was even in documentation and course material in those days. > That was of course years before someone decided to use .local for mDns which > then led to the current confusion. :-( Actually the example above looks as it lasted about 3 weeks, whereupon: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc738121(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN dated June 6, 2011. Not quite seven days in May, but close. I've read that using {staff,student}.tio.nl, as you do, is the correct thing to do, using a technique called "split-horizon", which is something I'd prefer not to involve myself in. If Debian is into making suggestions, perhaps "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" could be replaced by something like "… … home network, it's recommended that you use the domain name home.arpa on all your computers". Cheers, David.
