Dot Local Domains

[Snyder, Alexander J]

I use "int" as a subdomain to my real one.

snyderfamily.co is my primary domain, that runs email, and then "
int.snyderfamily.co" resolves my internal names like "
plex.int.snyderfamily.co"

Let me know if you need any help!

Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 23:28 Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Oh, one more thing I wanted to mention, using an "unused" TLD, like `.lan`
> or as Steve suggested `.cxm`, you'll get some odd behaviors. For instance,
> if you type in "mydomain.com", browsers assume it's a URL since it's a
> valid domain name, at least syntactically. If you however type in
> "mydomain.lan", at least some browsers, like Firefox, won't see ".lan" as a
> valid TLD which means it doesn't see "mydomain.lan" as a valid domain, and
> therefore it will do a search instead. You can get around this by putting
> the appropriate http:// or https:// before the domain to force it to
> treat it as a domain, but it's kind of annoying.
>
> I get around this by bookmarking everything I run at home so I don't have
> to use the domains directly, but it's still a bit annoying. Thus, using a
> subdomain off a real domain that you own would be better in this regard.
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2022, at 9:43 AM, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> .local is generally reserved for Avahi/Bonjour. The simplest case is say
> your computer name is "mypc", then on another machine on the same network,
> you can access that pc via "mypc.local", assuming you have public services
> running on it.
>
> If you're just wanting a domain to use within your local network, I would
> refrain from using .local so that it doesn't conflict with this. I
> personally use ".lan" for stuff local to my network, but that's also not
> best practice.
>
> Ideally, you'd own a real domain, for instance "mydomain.com", then use
> something like "*.lan.mydomain.com" for local network stuff. You can
> still use a local bind so nothing is public but you can guarantee that you
> won't conflict with anything else that way.
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2022, at 8:07 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> For some reason .local popped into my head this morning.  From what I
> read it appears I may be able to create an Intranet that has a private
> domain name such as MyBusiness.local, on a private IP, and I am thinking
> I can run BIND and make a zone file for this Intranet.  In this case, if
> I am in he local net I can bring it up with  MyBusiness.local??  If so
> then I should be able to add subdomains to the local BIND/zone... So
> will this private network work like the public Internet?
>
> This makes me believe I can create a mail server on this private net for
> the users of this private net.  Not that I want to, however it is
> interesting.
>
> I read that MAC is doing something with the .local domain so it was
> recommended to use:
>
> .test
> .example
> .invalid
> .localhost
>
> Would it be possible to create a private network using one of these
> private TLDs and can I use BIND to control this?
>
> How will my browser know to go to my private domain if I use one of
> these private domains - I seem to recall needing to put this  in the
> hosts file on Linux and Windows so it would resolve.  Would BIND
> override this?
>
> Thanks!!
> Keith
>
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