On 8/4/2010 1:55 AM, GrayHat wrote: >> Previously I was taught to use .local for my LAN domain suffixes. >> But with the new auto-configuration technologies like mDNS and >> Avahi .local has now become a reserved namespace. >> > Hm... first of all it's NOT reserved; no DNS server (try running > a query like "dig local NS") is serving that TLD so it's NOT > reserved by any means, it's just being used by someone >
Ok - I'll rephrase. Since Apple/Zeroconf/Avahi/mDNS/whoever else blatantly stole the ".local" domain suffix, in express violation of previous standard practices (if not published standards or RFC's) preached by various prophets including followers of the mighty Church of Micro$oft, using a domain with ".local" in combination with nodes configured for mDNS is illegal, immoral, probably fattening - and will lead to migraines of biblical proportions for novice sysadmins who don't know any better and probably shouldn't be adminstering a network. Like me. ;-) > That said, I prefer avoiding the use of "special" TLDs, if you > own the domain "example.com" you may just use it for your > public needs and for your private ones, using the same > domain on your "LAN" just means setting up a "split horizon" > DNS and won't take too much, then, if you don't want or can't > setup a "split horizon" DNS you may just go on and let the > DNS work as it was designed; in such a case you may just > use (e.g.) "priv.example.com" as your private domain and > still avoid "collisions" since you'll own the "example.com" > domain and nobody else will be able to use it :) > I could and have done that - but for reasons that made sense at the time I generally preferred to utilize distinct non-routable domains for internal services. > As for ASSP, I think that the "private domain" is a non existing > problem, see, let's say your ASSP full name is assp.example.com > now, all you'll need to do is setting it up so that "assp.example.com" > will ALSO be the locally managed domain, so, messages sent to > the email interface will be addressed to [email protected] > no fuss, no muss and... no collisions :) > Absolutely true - although I must confess that while I asked the question on an ASSP user list, and therefore most reasonable people would assume this was an ASSP-specific question - I was actually asking for more generic purposes. I'm considering renaming an existing domain from ".local" so I can quit fighting some systems that keep insisting on installing mDNS - and it's even conceivable this Zeroconf stuff will make life easier...not. So I was looking for an alternative to split horizon - my own fault for not spelling things out. -- Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
