On Wed 25 Oct 2023 at 08:33:25 (+0200), Erwan David wrote: > Le 25/10/2023 à 03:47, David Wright a écrit : > > On Mon 23 Oct 2023 at 12:06:05 (+0200), Christian Groessler wrote: > > > On 10/23/23 07:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 1:24 AM ghe2001 <ghe2...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > > > How about a /29 or so, named "here.<your initials>", hosts named 2 or > > > > > 3 letter abbreviations of what you call the computers, with > > > > > unroutable IPs, DNS'ed in /etc/hosts (with shortcuts). > > > > Whatever you come up with for <your initials>, ICANN can add to the > > > > gTLD namespace; see <https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD>. > > > Just register a daomain and use that. > > That costs money, and I can't see the point when there are TLDs > > that are perfectly safe already available, like .home.arpa, and > > before that, .{corp,home,mail}. > > > Or if you already have a domain, you can use a subdomain. eg. I have > rail.eu.org, and at home it is depot.rail.eu.org
I'm not sure how that would work when my home network is on a different continent from my domain's hosting. Cheers, David.