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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I still haven't heard a convincing argument to not use .local and I see no reason to stop.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mainly conflicts with mDNS. However it's shitty IMHO that the mDNS spec snarfed a domain already in widespread use, should have used .mDNS or similar.

[–] xcjs 8 points 3 months ago

That I agree with. Microsoft drafted the recommendation to use it for local networks, and Apple ignored it or co-opted it for mDNS.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

.local is already used by mDNS/Zeroconf.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

You mean mDNS/Zeroconf are using a tld that was already being used.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've also used .local but .local could imply a local neighborhood. The word itself is based on "location". Maybe a campus could be .local but the smaller networks would be .internal

Or, maybe they want to not confuse it with link-local or unique local addresses. Though, maybe all .internal networks should be using local (private) addresses?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My main issue was it doesn’t play well with Macs.