On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 12:59:45 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote: > On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:40:32PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, > > .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? > > home.arpa was defined by IANA in 2018. If they go ahead with > .internal then I can only imagine it will be in addition to, not > instead of, home.arpa. > > > How could this affect mDNS and the use of .local? > > It won't. mDNS will continue using .local. > > 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.
Possibly because people aren't warned against using it unless they're on a network that is already using it for Microsoft servers. It would be simple to add such a warning to the screen below, and perhaps some advice on home.arpa etc at the same time. ┌─────────────────────────┤ [!!] Configure the network ├────────────────────┐ │ │ │ The domain name is the part of your Internet address to the right of your │ │ host name. It is often something that ends in .com, .net, .edu, or .org. │ │ 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. │ │ │ │ Domain name: │ │ │ │ _ │ │ │ │ <Go Back> <Continue> │ │ │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ With any group of people for whom the second line is useful information, I think a significant proportion would choose a name like "local" after reading the third line. BTW you can't /buy/ your own domain, only rent it—and prompt payment is required to make sure you keep it. Cheers, David.
