> On 3 Sep 2017, at 22:51, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org> wrote: > On 3 Sep 2017, at 14:38, Mark Andrews wrote: >> >> >> Why would anyone tell you that “.local” would conflict when you were supposed >> to register a name *before* using it. > > Because some vendors gave bad advice in their documentation, particularly in > examples. > >> If you are doing AD correctly you should be able to register you machines >> wherever >> they connect to the Internet and that requires a public registration. > > And that is what Microsoft has suggested in all their documentation for many > years.
However, Microsoft did encourage their customers to use .local names for Active Directory domains for quite a long time - see for example this link to the documentation for Windows Small Business Server 2003. It isn't fair to only blame MS customers for choosing .local domains. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc747455(v=ws.10).aspx Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at
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