> Ok - I'll rephrase. Since Apple/Zeroconf/Avahi/mDNS/whoever > else blatantly stole the ".local" domain suffix, in express violation > of previous standard practices (if not published standards or RFC's) > preached by various prophets including followers of the mighty Church
... of the swimming elephant ? > of Micro$oft, uh no, I see :) > using a domain with ".local" in combination with nodes > configured for mDNS is illegal, immoral, probably fattening and possibly dangerous for health; the use of ".local" TLD should be subject to previous control and clearance from FDA :) ! >> domain on your "LAN" just means setting up a "split horizon" >> DNS and won't take too much, then, if you don't want or can't [...] >> use (e.g.) "priv.example.com" as your private domain and > I could and have done that - but for reasons that made sense > at the time I generally preferred to utilize distinct non-routable > domains for internal services. I see; disagree, but understand that someone may need to use such "unknown" TLDs ok... >> [email protected] no fuss, no muss and... no collisions :) > Absolutely true - although I must confess that while I asked the > question on an ASSP user list, and therefore most reasonable > people would assume this was an ASSP-specific question well... the whole thread started as an ASSP specific issue and we're somewhat hijacking it (although the whole discussion may still be of general interest imVHo) > I was actually asking for more generic purposes. I'm considering > renaming an existing domain from ".local" so I can quit fighting > some systems that keep insisting on installing mDNS Ok... so you need a "reserved" TLD which you'll be able to use inside your network w/o collisions... well... hard to say, you may even set up a ".thisismylocaltldandyoullgohellifyoulluseit" <g> but then nothing will forbid someone (apple.. whoever) from using the SAME TLD, all in all it's "unused" <g> Seriously; you may have a look here http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsind-test-tlds-06 but keep in mind that, if tomorrow someone will decide to use the same "reserved" TLD for whatever purpose, there will be nothing forbidding it and you may be back in trouble... while using your own domain (as for my other message) will totally avoid such kind of issues; that said, you may turn your "example.local" domain into "example.tld" or "example.tld0" or even, using the ISO3166 reservation list, into "example.xy" :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
