Hi,
On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 10:08:55PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On 8/3/24 09:00, Andy Smith wrote:
> > > If you use .local for other things it can interfere with mDNS but
> > > picking almost anything else has very few repercussions (unless you
> > > are very silly about it), so I don't understand why this topic
> > > always generates so much debate on this list.
>
> Part of the reason it generates more heat than light, Andy, is because
> off-topicness creaps in.
I've been thinking about it and I also wonder if it's because
home.arpa is relatively new and weird-sounding so anyone who's been
around for a while probably does not use it themselves. When certain
such people read a post that says that home.arpa is the standard
they somehow feel personally called out ("they're saying I'm
NON-COMPLIANT!?") and compelled to either question it, argue it or
simply state a personal anecdote about what they use on their
network and why it is okay / has always been okay.
So I want to emphasise again that while standards are useful so
we're all on the same page, in this particular case it's not a big
deal, likely nothing terribly bad is going to happen to you even if
you do squat on some already-allocated TLD let alone a possible
future one. We should just accept what the standard is and consider
it next time we set things up.
Thanks,
Andy
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