Post #2098187
2023-06-25 16:12 UTC
@sindarina I have a follow up questions about bad domain name usage, I see lots of companies using name.local as their internal DNS, I always hate that (because I know .local is mDNS and shouldn't be used in unicast) but I don't know what to propose instead (if they can't use a subdomain of their public domain). Something like .home.arpa but for companies does not exist, does it ?
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@sindarina@ngmx.com 2023-06-25 17:45
@caseyneiba 'name.local' still happens on Windows networks a lot, yes, because it was all over the tutorials for a long time, and there's still plenty of admins who keep doing it. The alternative is to register a ‘network domain’, specifically for use on the LAN/WAN. Like, for example, if your corporate website is at 'example.com’, you could put your Active Directory domain at 'example.net’, or some other variation on a recognisable name. There's a ‘.computer’, ‘.network’, and a ‘.systems’ gTLD now too, so there's plenty of options. Just never pick one you don't control, like ‘corp.com’ 😄