-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 04:01:50PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:43:15 +0200 > <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > > > (Don't chuckle. A company I was working at did set its internal "top > > level domain" to "local". Much hilarity with zeroconf [1] ensued). > > > > That was the standard recommendation for users of MS Small Business > Server, who were presumed not to be running their own public DNS > servers, to avoid name problems with externally-hosted websites etc.
Yes, I think that's where it came from (the folks responsible for the internal DNS servers (!) have Microsoft background). Whatever "small" means -- this company has > 5K clients. > It is an article of faith for MS people that no other operating system > exists... Many things don't exist in that bubble. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlnwrMMACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYZEwCeJ7T0Wxts1l9jBF6BTFEa2ff6 p5wAniW8wWnJidT6JlB40a/otDVE+crA =hV5e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
