On 12/18/2017 03:25 PM, David Haller wrote: > > ISTR, .localdomain is the new .local... > > BTW: I hate it how .local got ursurped by zeroconf/mDNS. >
You were never allowed to use .local in the first place =P I learned some interesting things from RFC 8244, the first being that they have an up-to-date list of reserved names: https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml and the second being that there are two exceptions, because oops, they didn't follow their own rules (.home and ipv4only.arpa). localdomain isn't on there. There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing, because it guarantees that every hostname is globally unique (so if I copy/paste a URL to you, it goes the same place on your machine as it did mine). On the other hand, I hate the idea of paying some bureaucrat to be able to use my own network.
