John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd also like it to say more clearly up front that .ALT is for names > that are totally outside the DNS protocols, not for names handled > locally using DNS protocols. It's for things like .onion, not like > .local.
.local is a tricky example because it is used for mDNS (as discussed in the other replies) but it also has a history of being used as an ad-hoc RFC 1918-style domain. Microsoft recommended .local for use in Active Directory domain names for their Small Business Server, back in the days when you couldn't reasonably expect their target customers to register a real domain name. There are ugly hacks in mDNS implementations such as Avahi that try to work out what a network connection uses .local for. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> https://dotat.at/ Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, Shannon: North or northwest, becoming northeast later, 4 to 6. Slight or moderate, becoming smooth or slight in Irish Sea. Showers. Good, occasionally poor. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
