On 2019-12-14, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I could be quite wrong, but I thought that "local" was actually suggested as > a domain name at one > time by the installer. (And I could be remembering a different distro, though > I've been using Debian > for a long time -- at least 10 years, I think.) I suppose I just continued to > use it over the years > out of habit. >
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762 3. Multicast DNS Names ... To remedy this problem [of home computer users generally lacking easy access to name creation in the global DNS namespace*], this document allows any computer user to elect to give their computers link-local Multicast DNS host names of the form: "single-dns-label.local". ... This document specifies that the DNS top-level domain ".local." is a special domain with special semantics, namely that any fully qualified name ending in ".local." is link-local, and names within this domain are meaningful only on the link where they originate. Has RFC 6762 been superseded? Or have I gotten this wrong? -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de moi." Antonin Artaud