-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/14/2012 10:09 AM, Tony Finch wrote: > King, Harold Clyde (Hal) <h...@utk.edu> wrote: > >> I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to >> keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a >> DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the >> .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some light on the >> use of the .local TLD? > > Microsoft have recommended its use for sites that don't have a > properly registered domain name. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296250 > > Tony.
I do this at home with bind on Linux, except I use .localdomain instead of .local. It doesn't seem to treat it any differently than anything else, and since this is just one DNS server servicing a NAT'd network, nothing strange really CAN happen. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novos...@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCjtbwACgkQmb+gadEcsb5NMgCgxYAoLyaSf6wNMpq9TmprLr12 /vcAoIB2fBd6N9U0E0gPvzmLnUmdwZc4 =HXqq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
