On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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. >
There are; .local and .localhost are reserved TLDs. Further, any name without a TLD is unlikely to resolve without a major reworking of the DNS system. Likewise it seems unlikely anyone will ever be able to register ".localdomain" similar to how ".com" is not registered. http://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml I don't understand all of this discussion. There exist vacant TLDs - .local was first and was fine, so why did anybody change? Why does neth need a name with two dots? None of this makes any sense. Do people keep making stuff up without reading first? Cheers, R0b0t1
