Sure, you can do whatever you want. You could even use non-rfc1918 addresses and nobody can stop you. It’s just not always a great idea for your own network’s functionality and security. You can use an unregistered TLD if you want, but it’s worth knowing that when people and companies did that in the past, and the TLD was later registered, things didn’t turn out well for them. You wouldn’t expect .foo to be a TLD, right? And it wasn’t, until it was.
Ah good point. I guess a future-proofed guarantee that the domain will never be used externally would be easier to use than trying to somehow configure my DNS to never update specific addresses.
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Browsers barf at non https now. What are we supposed to do about certificates?
It should be reserved for sex toys.
Just saying.
What are you doing step-LAN?
Please don’t use the duplex again.
Thanks but I hardly needed anyone permission to not use that. .local still works just fine.
Except when it doesn’t. It can have issues around multicast dns.
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.
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.
I used to use .local but mDNS can get confused, .home has been fine though
Why do I care what ICANN says I can do on my own network? It’s my network, I do what I want.
Try using .com for your internal network and watch the problems arise. Their choice to reserve .internal helps people avoid fqdn collisions.
See also https://traintocode.com/stop-using-test-dot-com/
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Well as long as the TLD isn’t used by anyone it should work internally regardless of what ICANN says, especially if I add it to etc/hosts
Sure, you can do whatever you want. You could even use non-rfc1918 addresses and nobody can stop you. It’s just not always a great idea for your own network’s functionality and security. You can use an unregistered TLD if you want, but it’s worth knowing that when people and companies did that in the past, and the TLD was later registered, things didn’t turn out well for them. You wouldn’t expect .foo to be a TLD, right? And it wasn’t, until it was.
Ah good point. I guess a future-proofed guarantee that the domain will never be used externally would be easier to use than trying to somehow configure my DNS to never update specific addresses.
YouCANN do anything you want?
Thank god. Now iOS will finally recognize it
Took long enough
routerlogin.net how I do not miss you
i loved that it was an option. not sure why it was changed.
I guess no one offered anything for .internal
Woohoo! We internal now! No more FQDN collisions!
My network is .milkme and I have nipples… will they approve it?
Missed the opportunity for
.myshit.That’s good, I never liked the clunky
.home.arpadomain.It was just always so annoying having to go into the iPhone keyboard punctuation twice for each domain