On 20/12/17 02:12, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:09:30 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:33:08 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
It's not about political correctness but perspective. The good guys
intervene, the baddies interfere. It's like the diff
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:00:33 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> > * [OT]What's the difference between intervention and
> > interference? None that I can see. One is just more Politically Crass -
> > oops! Correct - than the other.
>
>
On Monday, 18 December 2017 10:57:31 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:45:30 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >
> > Coincidentally, I'd recently also ended my subscription to the magazine.
> >
> :-(
Well, after many years of devoted service, they seem to have lost their way.
I've
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:09:30 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:33:08 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > It's not about political correctness but perspective. The good guys
> > > intervene, the baddies interfere. It's like the difference between a
> > > terrorist and a fre
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:33:08 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > It's not about political correctness but perspective. The good guys
> > intervene, the baddies interfere. It's like the difference between a
> > terrorist and a freedom fighter.
>
> We could mince words all day.
No we couldn't, that
On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:31:42 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:00:33 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > * [OT] What's the difference between intervention and
> > interference? None that I can see. One is just more Politically Crass -
> > oops! Correct - than the other.
>
On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:00:33 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> * [OT]What's the difference between intervention and
> interference? None that I can see. One is just more Politically Crass -
> oops! Correct - than the other.
It's not about political correctness but perspective. The good guys
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 12/19/2017 12:22 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>>
>> There are; .local and .localhost are reserved TLDs.
>
>
> .local is reserved for Apple's multicast DNS stuff, which requires names
> to be resolved via a nonstandard method:
>
> Any DNS query
On 12/19/2017 12:22 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>
> There are; .local and .localhost are reserved TLDs.
.local is reserved for Apple's multicast DNS stuff, which requires names
to be resolved via a nonstandard method:
Any DNS query for a name ending with ".local." MUST be sent to the
mDNS IPv4 link-l
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 12/18/2017 03:25 PM, David Haller wrote:
>>
>> ISTR, .localdomain is the new .local...
>>
>> BTW: I hate it how .local got ursurped by zeroconf/mDNS.
>>
>
> You were never allowed to use .local in the first place =P
>
> I learned some i
On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:39:50 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 19/12/17 13:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one
> > hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing,
> > because it guarantees that every hostname i
On 19/12/17 13:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one
> hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing,
> because it guarantees that every hostname is globally unique (so if I
> copy/paste a URL to you, it goes the sa
On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 08:59:10 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > I have used .localdomain for years without issue. VLANS
> > (wifi.localdomain, lan.localdomain etc.) are great if you have the
> > hardware to do it.
> >
> > Using non-official TLD internally shouldn't cause any problems (unless
> >
On 12/18/2017 04:58 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>
> I have used .localdomain for years without issue. VLANS
> (wifi.localdomain, lan.localdomain etc.) are great if you have the
> hardware to do it.
>
> Using non-official TLD internally shouldn't cause any problems (unless
> someone is "stupid").
On 12/18/2017 03:25 PM, David Haller wrote:
>
> ISTR, .localdomain is the new .local...
>
> BTW: I hate it how .local got ursurped by zeroconf/mDNS.
>
You were never allowed to use .local in the first place =P
I learned some interesting things from RFC 8244, the first being that
they have an u
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> On Monday, 18 December 2017 09:49:41 GMT Adam Carter wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Peter Humphrey
> > wrote:
> > > I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN
> mynet
> > > (bowdlerised). Now I come to
On Monday, 18 December 2017 09:49:41 GMT Adam Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Peter Humphrey
> wrote:
> > I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
> > (bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it
> > insists that I tell it a d
On 19/12/17 04:25, David Haller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> On 12/18/2017 02:55 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
>>> My router defaults, iirc, to .local. And I thought .home also did the
>>> same sort of thing.
>>
>> Both are reserved: the ".home" TLD is reserved for
Hello,
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>On 12/18/2017 02:55 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
>> My router defaults, iirc, to .local. And I thought .home also did the
>> same sort of thing.
>
>Both are reserved: the ".home" TLD is reserved for the Home Networking
>Control Protocol in the RFC 77
On 12/18/2017 02:55 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
>
> My router defaults, iirc, to .local. And I thought .home also did the
> same sort of thing.
Both are reserved: the ".home" TLD is reserved for the Home Networking
Control Protocol in the RFC 7788 that you cited, and ".local" is
reserved for some mult
On 18/12/17 13:56, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 12/17/2017 09:05 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
(bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it insists
that I tell it a domain name with at least tw
Hello,
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>Come to think of it, I have a .me.uk domain registered. I wonder if I can
>use that...
Of course you can. Just add a third/fourth level subdomain and put
your stuff under this. E.g. I have a domain example.de registered to
me, resolving from-da-
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 18 December 2017 09:49:41 GMT Adam Carter wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Peter Humphrey
>>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello list,
>> >
>> > I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
>> > (bowdlerise
On 12/18/2017 09:31 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>
>> You should probably buy a TLD. It's stupid, but there are no reserved
>> top-level domain names for internal use.
>
> What, for $185,000 plus quarterly fees[1]? No thanks.
>
> --->8
>
I meant "buy a domain" there =)
If somebody were to shell
On Monday, 18 December 2017 13:56:52 GMT Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 12/17/2017 09:05 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
> > (bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it
> > insists that
On 12/17/2017 09:05 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
> (bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it insists
> that I tell it a domain name with at least two dots in it. But I don't have
>
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:45:30 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I'd been encouraged to try Neth by a score of 9/10 in a certain
> magazine known to one of our contributors here.
I reviewed it for one of those magazines a couple of years ago in a 5 way
round up where it narrowly beat ClearOS for top s
On Monday, 18 December 2017 09:49:41 GMT Adam Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Peter Humphrey
>
> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
> > (bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it
> > in
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
> (bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it insists
> that I tell it a domain name with at least two dots in it.
That's dum
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
> (bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it insists
> that I tell it a domain name with at least two dots in it. But I don't h
Hello list,
I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
(bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it insists
that I tell it a domain name with at least two dots in it. But I don't have
a standard TLD.
What do you all call your local LANs? Fol
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