Darac Marjal wrote: >>> [...] >>> Oh, for gawd's sake. Is there not an RFC for local domains ? >> >>There is, see RFC 7788 and RFC 8244. ".home", while being controversial, >>is probably fine. And there's ".test", which is perfectly fine as far as >>RFC 6761 concerned. > > There is a solution to all of this, of course. Stump up the few > dollars/pounds/euro per year to register your own public domain name. > You don't necessarily need to to anything with it, but if you're > registered as the owner of, say, DavesHomeLAN.fr, then you don't really > need to worry about it clashing with someone else.
Indeed. Even gets you the benefit of being able to run TLS-enabled services for yourself. When I worked it out for myself, given my usage and some fuzzy maths (as I don't know the exact breakdown of "my servers use X% of my Y kWh/month electricity bill"), I am spending approximately $25 to $30 per month to run stuff like my OwnCloud instance, when considering the electricity costs, tls cert, domain name / ddns service, etc. While I could probably "get away with" the $8.25 per month tier of Dropbox (the only one I checked when writing this), I know I don't always catch accidental data deletions very quick, so I'd probably want to use the $16.50 tier. (NB -- costs based on paying for a year in full, month-to-month is $9.99 / 19.99, respectively). Now, I wouldn't just throw away my domain name (and the associated ddns service) if I was using a cloud provider, so we're right back at $19 / month for it. I personally consider that $5 to $10 per month cost of "my data on my hardware, and not subject to a service agreement that can change" to be money well spent. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
