Pocket wrote: > The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the > following second level domain names reserved which can be used as > examples. > > example.com > example.net > example.org > > Which I take it that you can use them for any purpose as long as it is not on > the internet
No, they are for examples. In documentation. Any system encountering one of those names in real life can and probably should assume that it is unconfigured or in a lab where terrible things could happen without affecting anyone. > Why would I register a domain name for an internal network? You shouldn't. home.arpa is already a special-use domain for that purpose. If you happen to have a domain name for any other purpose, you could establish a subdomain for your internal use, just by configuring it. Or you could use split DNS to show different views to the inside and outside. > So I can not use or I am forbidden to use 192.168.1.0/24 network as it is > reserved? On the contrary, it is reserved so that you (and everyone else) can use it for this particular purpose. But it is also your responsibility to remember not to let that subnet leak outside of your internal network, and to accept that other people are using it in a similar manner. > I am just using what was installed by my scripted debian installation Who provided the script? > I could have built my own "router" with my own custom scratch built OS as I > did starting 35 years ago, but why should I if I can get something off the > shelf? You can get a computer pre-configured with Windows or Mac OS off the shelf. Why did you decide to install Linux? The answers to the two questions are likely similar, if not identical. -dsr- -- https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. there is no justice, there is just us.
