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301 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 10 Apr 25 14:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hardaker ◴[10 Apr 25 14:58 UTC] No.43644486[source]▶
You might check out .internal instead which was recently approved [1] for local use.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal

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GrumpyYoungMan ◴[10 Apr 25 15:24 UTC] No.43644836[source]▶
The *.home.arpa domain in RFC 8375 has been approved for local use since 2018, which is long enough ago that most hardware and software currently in use should be able to handle it.
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1. Mountain_Skies ◴[10 Apr 25 16:20 UTC] No.43645450[source]▶
It's ugly and clunky, which is why after seven years it's had very little adoption. Home users aren't network engineers so these things actually do matter even if it seems silly in a technical sense.