@thehatfox@lemmy.world to Sysadmin@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoICANN approves use of .internal domain for your networkwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down10cross-posted to: tech@programming.devselfhosted@lemmy.world
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minus-square@Metz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink16•5 months agoi thought that is what .local is for. guess i misunderstand something.
minus-square@scholar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink34•5 months agoIt was (unofficially) but then bonjour and mdns started using it and it became less reliable
minus-square@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink6•5 months agoso eventually we’re going to end up with .internaldomainonlyforinternalusenottobeexposedtotheinternetPLEASEcanwejusthaveONEproperlyinternalonlydomainhowdifficultcanthisbeyouguys
minus-square@scholar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink8•5 months agoThat’s what might have happened had the ICANN not reserved .internal
i thought that is what .local is for. guess i misunderstand something.
It was (unofficially) but then bonjour and mdns started using it and it became less reliable
so eventually we’re going to end up with .internaldomainonlyforinternalusenottobeexposedtotheinternetPLEASEcanwejusthaveONEproperlyinternalonlydomainhowdifficultcanthisbeyouguys
That’s what might have happened had the ICANN not reserved .internal
ah, makes sense. thanks for the info!