On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 20:29 +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > > 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 I would point out an analogous situation with documentation and addresses. The documentation that accompanied Sun Microsystems SunOS and Solaris used examples of IP address 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.3.4 and similar, now making those blocks toxic since that /8 was assigned to APNIC. IIRC, they also used names like .local and .test in some of their doco. This isn't just a Microsoft think (and I'm far FAR from a Microsoft apologist). Sometimes our tech writers do things they shouldn't when their crystal ball is cloud and we get stuck with the results. And I've dealt with far FAR worse. > Tony. > -- > f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at Regards, Mike -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (o) +1 706 850-8773 | m...@wittsend.com /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (c) +1 678 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ ARIN whois: ARIN-MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xC0EB9675674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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