On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 2:33 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > gene heskett wrote: > > On 10/22/23 11:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 7:13 AM Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> > > > wrote: > > > > > > https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8375 > > > > > Chuckle. Looks like a solution looking for a problem. You can use whatever > > domainname that tickles your fancy when your net is in an un-routeable > > address block. > > > Sure. Right up until the day that someone registers it on the > Net at large. > > As of March 2021, the IANA root database includes 1589 TLDs. > "den" is not currently one of them, but that could change at any > point, and then there would be a high likelihood of "coyote.den" > being registered by someone else. > > You might not have a specific problem with that, depending on > how you do local DNS, and depending on what you want. But it's > safer to either use a recognized internal domain (home.arpa, for > instance) or a domain that you own, either with split views or > unpublished internal subdomains (internal.randomstring.org, for > example).
+1. I've been using home.pvt and home.dmz since the late 1990s. I've been waiting for it to break since vanity domains/brand tlds are a thing now. <https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD>. Jeff
