On 5/23/24 14:55, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 01:50:21PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:08 PM Paul M Foster <pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:54:31AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
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Also, I think you should be using *.home.arpa, and not *.lan.
home.arpa is reserved for private use by ICANN and the IETF. I suspect
*.lan is not reserved for private use.
On a LAN, you can use anything you like. I've used .mars.lan for decades
with no difficulty.
Another example of off the wall, a coyote was the smartest member of the
canine's I've ever met. This bitch could do simple arithmetic, barking
the number of times the answer was. This machine is the best of about 8
here, so whatever has been on this desk has been "coyote" for nearly 40
years. Coyotes have a den so the domainname as FQDN in the hosts file
is coyote.den, I've had zero problems with that since the late 80's when
coyote.coyote.den was a full blown Amiga 2000 with a 68040 board in it
with 64 megs of main memory. Never had a winderz machine in real use.
Bought a lappy with xp in it when I retired in 2002. put mandrake on it,
blew away the winderz two weeks later cuz winderz couldn't drive the
radio but mandrake could. It died of a dead battery over a decade back.
pi based stuff is moving in and the power bill is going down.
Citation, please.
No need. It just works. Of course, if you have domain names
in your LAN which also is "out there", you won't "see" both.
If your LAN is isolated, you can basically do whatever you
want.
And then there are "special" TLDs (.local, I'm looking at
you) where you'll get lots of fun effects should you decide
to use them (zeroconf, I'm looking at you :-)
That's the why of the above recommendation.
Cheers
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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