On Saturday 13 August 2016, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/12/2016 09:02 PM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
It's on my TODO since years to find something better than .local but as long as I blacklist any avahi/mDNS, stuff it works.
As regular readers will entice, I won my own domian. My solution to the above is to have a subdomain "HOME." within that for which my local machine is the authority.
Yes .home or .lan might be a better choice than .local. So .home and .lan are widely used by router manufacturers as factory default, since there is no better choice for such a default. FYI see paragraph "Name Collision Concerns Impede Delegation" here: https://icannwiki.com/.home But IMO the best practice would be to use a subdomain of your real domain, like .local.company.org, see the first answer plus comments here: http://serverfault.com/questions/17255/top-level-domain-domain-suffix-for-pr... cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org