Hi Rodrigo,
On 2016-02-25 Thu 15:18 PM |, Roderick wrote:
>
> My names without dots in /etc/hosts are to be considered as names
> immediately under the root in the DNS tree, as also "localhost"
> (localhost.). The names inflation has a bad effect on my praxis.
> Is/was it not a common praxis? Some years ago we did not expect TLDs
> with more than 3 letters, every other name was to be expected to be
> local.
>
> From the reserved names in rfc2606, "test" seems to be the best, it
> has four letters, the others 7 and 8. I wonder how commercial became
> this, that they did not conseder that normal users want short names,
> that they sold "dev." to google.
>
These are reasons why .lan is popular.
It works on many small LANs.
You could have a monthly email to remind you to check if it is
registered. If that _EVER_ happens, you can easily change a small
network to .priv (or something else) on a lazy wet afternoon. No drama.
For a hobbyist network, it doesn't matter too much; .w00t, .n0t, .u-k
e.g: the OpenBSD installer uses '.my.domain'
Cool.
--
A good name is better than precious ointment
-- Ecclesiastes
