Hi Peter, On Tue, 30 May 2017 12:32:35 +0200 Peter Hessler wrote: > On 2017 May 30 (Tue) at 10:37:37 +0100 (+0100), Craig Skinner wrote: > :.localdomain (.local interferes with iStuff, avoid it) > :.internal > :.private > :.priv > :.lan > > NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO > > All of those domains may (or have been) issued by ICANN, and can be > used for real.
RFC 2606 (& 6761, section 6) reserves the following TLDs for private testing: .test .example .invalid .localhost (These were created for testing, not for production.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.localhost '.local' is reserved as a pseudo-TLD for link-local hostnames that can be resolved via Multicast DNS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local Similar to 'localhost', '.localdomain' is "reserved" for internal usage. Hence the traditional default 'localhost.localdomain' on new installs. Also regarded as "reserved" are the other pseudo-TLDs mentioned. Cool, -- Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7
