Vint Cerf revealed Google already uses the string, as do plenty of others
r00ty
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Sorry. I chose .local and I’m sticking to it.

I went with .home and so far the problems are within reason

anytimesoon
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I’m using .home and have not had any issues. Would you mind sharing what problems you’ve come across so I know what to expect?

@ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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The main problem I have is waking up in the middle of the night worrying that ICANN pulled some more stupid corrupt bullshit that only makes networking worse and breaks my config.

Just look elsewhere in this thread: someone thinks that using .honk as a joke is safe. But what about .horse? .baby? .barefoot? .cool? (I stopped scrolling through the list at this point but you can see how arbitrary and idiotic things have become.)

It’s also second only to .com in terms of query volume in ICANN’s Magnitude statistics with 980 mil vs .internal’s 60 mil. Not sure if that makes it a de facto standard, but it’s close.

@UberMentch@lemmy.world
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I’ve had issues with .local on my Android device. Straight up doesn’t work. I had to change to .lan

r00ty
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Hmm, the only issue I had was because it was using the DoH (which I don’t have a local server for). Once I disabled that, it was fine.

@dhtseany@lemmy.ml
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I still haven’t heard a convincing argument to not use .local and I see no reason to stop.

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I’ve also used .local but .local could imply a local neighborhood. The word itself is based on “location”. Maybe a campus could be .local but the smaller networks would be .internal

Or, maybe they want to not confuse it with link-local or unique local addresses. Though, maybe all .internal networks should be using local (private) addresses?

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Tell me you don’t share a net with Macs without using those words.

xcjs
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Macs aren’t the only thing that use mDNS, either. I have a host monitoring solution that I wrote that uses it.

Even on windows sometimes depending on the target host, I’ve had to type host.local. (Final dot to do exact match) instead of host.local

This didn’t seem to affect other domains. I’m assuming it was due to special handling of .local

@ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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mDNS hasn’t been a just-Apple thing for decades. Do you still call it Ren-dess-voos like the Gaston character in Beauty and the Beast?

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.local is already used by mDNS/Zeroconf.

@x00z@lemmy.world
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You mean mDNS/Zeroconf are using a tld that was already being used.

Mainly conflicts with mDNS. However it’s shitty IMHO that the mDNS spec snarfed a domain already in widespread use, should have used .mDNS or similar.

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That I agree with. Microsoft drafted the recommendation to use it for local networks, and Apple ignored it or co-opted it for mDNS.

billwashere
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My main issue was it doesn’t play well with Macs.

@EnderMB@lemmy.world
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I switched from .local to .honk and I’m never looking back.

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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Fucking GENIUS.

I don’t get it.

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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I love it

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I was using .local, but it ran into too many conflicts with an mDNS service I host and vice versa. I switched to .lan, but I’m certainly not going to switch to .internal unless another conflict surfaces.

I’ve also developed a host-monitoring solution that uses mDNS, so I’m not about to break my own software. 😅

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.internal takes to long to type

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Yeah, that’s why I started using .lan.

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Yeah, I don’t really have a use at home for mDNS. None that I can think of, anyway. Pretty sure I was using it before MDNS was a thing.

Accessing printers? Resolving hostnames of internal hosts? I can’t imagine having a lan without mDNS

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Oh. Internal hosts, I just setup on my own DNS… No need for that. Printer, can’t say I’ve ever had a problem.

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