Came upon this doc:
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt
It says in part:
To safely satisfy these needs, four domain names are reserved as
listed and described below.
.test
.example
.invalid
.localhost
Seems these needs have long been resolved.
Your thoughts?
Keith
On 2022-11-23 20:34, Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> What I did for mydomain.net [4] I set up imydomain.net [5]
>
> The i stands for internal
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 12:53 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> General rule of thumb is not to spoof real domains, as you'll break
>> anyone using it elsewise, just about anything else is open game. I
>> can make a tld domain, .xyz (assuming this isn't a free-form tld
>> now), and so long as things point at that naturally (like an
>> internal resolver), it will pretend to be authoritative even if not.
>> I've had customers run internal dns under AD with something random
>> as their domain, it works so long as everything using the domain
>> knows to point internally first.
>>
>> What I do is use my domain, butash.net [1], and create an internal
>> subdomain off it, internal.butash.net [2] or like, and put all my
>> home/lab stuff under that as my internal dns knows to put a ns
>> record for the subdomain to itself, otherwise go out to public. No
>> one is the wiser generally, and my needs are met. Recommend the
>> same.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 12:19 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> I looked into this topic a while back and it’s a bit of a
>> quagmire.
>>
>> The general concensus I found was to use .local as your TLD as it
>> has been reserved for that purpose. There are a few more, like
>> .test, but .dev is a legitimate TLD run by Google.
>>
>> I’ve talked with several people who set up their own DNS server on
>> their intranet to respond to their own TLD so you don’t need to
>> use the hosts file on every machine. I think most companies with
>> multiple layers of firewalls take that approach because it won’t
>> resolve the URLs across the firewall — public DNS will always
>> return an error on the lookups.
>>
>> -David Schwartz
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2022, at 9:26 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you know I am building a "home office" lab for PHP development
>> and testing. I was not satisfied with the research I completed on
>> "non-routeable" domains for a private network made up of
>> "non-routeable" domains.
>>
>> In the distant past I used to use .dev for the TLD. From what I am
>> reading this is not a good idea.
>>
>> According to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8375.html [3] one
>> should use "home.arpa.". They add a period to the end which I
>> assume is the DNS domain name stop character when used in zone
>> files. Any thoughts?
>>
>> I will not be using DNS. My needs are so simple I will be adding
>> the IP and domain name in my host file, at least for now.
>>
>> I've read a lot about this subject. Some say to use a registered
>> domain with a subdomain that is on a private IP. I really do not
>> want to commingle public and private assets on the same domain.
>>
>> Any feedback is much appreciated!!
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
>>
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> Links:
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> [1] http://butash.net
> [2] http://internal.butash.net
> [3]
> https://u2206659.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=SJEG7TF39YLaAIMD0HhsfI0lbTtxhf0B9iVXMIHo234e-2FVw-2FyhT-2BRhbwtow13oAB1bD76MUDbm-2FuyVnd7UVxqQ-3D-3DqK4N_o-2BjQxMsWfboH-2B-2BcY2qb3IYCoqvthnvff9ftZz0pNEJ2tF1jbVlVBtrlaPYq4av3GFmhIl6hDTJp0vlcEfWuD5HliN7mazq1NqkL46JEotJwwOK-2FkuKaTizng8wU1HWxnp-2FMw8BnQ6VeeHFxnCcbBMqs4qb-2Fp11-2FJtxGr4MPTS6hEGMLYpFcvZWkbxeQNcCqBF3sv-2F7D-2BuOIrW1z5JDzK2UEZktkYqoOIEHWfocWRNmw-3D
> [4] http://mydomain.net
> [5] http://imydomain.net
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