On Sunday, 04-08-2024 at 22:59 Andy Smith wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, but I feel confused about what the 'current' standard is, and how long
it might be a standard.
<rant>
I have been traumatised by things changing. Just when I think I know something,
someone goes and changes it.
I will accept that for now that home.arpa but having anything end is "arpa"
sounds wrong.
It is not iptables anymore, it is nftables. It is not 'reboot' or 'shutdown -r
now' it is 'systemctl reboot', it is not syslog it is journalctl.
I still want to use 'shutdown -h now' (because of 1990's slackware) instead of
'systemctl poweroff'.
So when was .local high jacked for mDNS? It was for my Microsoft Small Business
server internal domain.
I need to just "get over it", I guess. And keep up with the times.
</rant>
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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