Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/18/22 1:50 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: No, I'm talking about the opposite situation. I'm talking about you have foo.local resolvable via mDNS, but not DNS - then there is a chance you won't be able to access the host. It's the same problem just opposite directions. The solution is to use

RE: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-18 Thread Laurence Perkins
> >-Original Message- >From: Rich Freeman >Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:50 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN? > >On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:12 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: >> >> >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:12 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > > >>-Original Message- > >>From: Rich Freeman > >>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 11:41 AM > >>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TLD f

RE: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-18 Thread Laurence Perkins
>>-Original Message- >>From: Rich Freeman >>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 11:41 AM >>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN? >> >>On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 12:28 PM Laurence Perkins >>wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 12:28 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > The standard does not prohibit the names being resolvable via unicast DNS as > well, though it does recommend that you make sure the two resolution paths > return consistent results since most systems will take the first response >

RE: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-18 Thread Laurence Perkins
-Original Message- From: tastytea Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2022 2:54 AM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN? > >On 2022-01-15 10:33+ Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> Rich F said recently

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:54:13 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 1/15/22 3:33 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." > > Ya --->8 > Ergo, RFC 6762 does not preclude the use of the local top level domain > in traditional

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-16 Thread Ralph Seichter
* tastytea: > Another solution would be to register an inexpensive domain name and > use that.  Quite so. For example, Hetzner (no affiliation) charges 3,36 EUR per year for a .de Domain. An officially registered domain saves a lot of hassle. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat 15 Jan 2022 11:53:58 GMT, tastytea wrote: > On 2022-01-15 10:33+ Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC > > 6762." > > > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local > > network? It

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 2:54 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > RFC 6762 does not preclude the use of the local top level domain > in traditional unicast DNS. Of course it doesn't. You can also go ahead and use some of Amazon's AWS IP space to number your home network too if you want. Just don't be

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 2:35 PM Raphael Mejias Dias wrote: >> >> You might want to look into whether it solves your problems >> out-of-the-box without the need to run internal DNS. The latter still >> has certain advantages, but mDNS obviously benefits from simplicity. >> >> > This solution,

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/15/22 3:33 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Hi. Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." Ya I've read RFC 6762 in the past and I just skimmed part of it again. I didn't find anything that prohibited the use of the local top level domain for

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Raphael Mejias Dias
> > On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 5:57 AM William Kenworthy > wrote: > > > > On 15/1/22 18:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." > > > > > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local >

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 5:57 AM William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 15/1/22 18:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." > > > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local > > network? > > It

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Matthias Hanft
tastytea wrote: > > Another solution would be to register an inexpensive domain name and use > that.  That's generally a good idea. After using .local for many years, too, I have switched to my "official" domain and added "local" for the internal IP addresses. So my server down in the basement

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 15/1/22 18:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local network? It used to be .prhnet, but then a program I tried a few years ago insisted on a

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread tastytea
On 2022-01-15 10:33+ Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC > 6762." > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local > network? It used to be .prhnet, but then a program I tried a few > years ago