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server.home for my part
I use a subdomain of a domain name I own.
*.internal.domain.name
since ssl certs are easier to get when you’re using an owned domain name.hostname.vlan.local.lan
local.lan is the only fixed part of my fqdn’s
I just bought an actual domain and use that 😅
As an added bonus, letsencrypt works with no effort.
same. saved my ass already a few times when doing some reverseengineering voodoo. being able to set a valid https cert makes it easier to redirect apps than to bypass forced HTTPS. had to pretend to be a update server for something once and patching the URL was enough via getting a cert quickly (using DNS-01 challenge, no exposed ports ever)
Idk is that wrong but I made up server name tride so .tride is my local domain
.home.lan for me.
nothing as home does work (meaning plain hostname) works by default on openwrt dns
While this works for most things, you will run into issues with certain software which automatically assume that no TLD means the provided address is incorrect.
Usually adding a slash at the end works if the protocol is http based
fritz.box for the machines themselves because Fritz!BOX (although handed out by Pi-Hole),but .lan for anything going over the local proxy towards the same machine for TLS.
Some machines use my custom domain name instead of .lan, if they need to be accessible from outside. So these last ones go directly over the local proxy internally, but automatically over CloudFlare Tunnel and Authentik when not at home. The proxy being Caddy.
I use different ones. Got an legit dpmain which I also use locally (with ssl certificates) and in my local network my server listens to SERVI. Just SERVI.