Vint Cerf revealed Google already uses the string, as do plenty of others

Thanks but I hardly needed anyone permission to not use that. .local still works just fine.

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Good luck with that. .local is reserved for mDNS calls, and not every OS treats it the same way. Ask me how I know.

Been working fine for me for twenty years or more in a mixed environment.

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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

I think it was only added in android 12.

Same here, just stumbled across this issue yesterday when I tried to restructure my network to use .local

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It just means .internal won’t be relayed out on the internet, as it will be reserved for local only.

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I used to use .local but mDNS can get confused, .home has been fine though

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Except when it doesn’t. It can have issues around multicast dns.

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