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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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alexvitkov ◴[10 Apr 25 16:29 UTC] No.43645535[source]▶
Too much typing, and Chromium-based browsers don't understand it yet and try to search for mything.internal instead, which is annoying - you have to type out the whole http://mything.internal.

This can be addressed by hijacking an existing TLD for private use, e.g. mything.bb :^)

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nsteel ◴[10 Apr 25 17:47 UTC] No.43646358[source]▶
Isn't just typing the slash at the end enough to avoid it searching? e.g. mything/
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1. jeroenhd ◴[11 Apr 25 10:27 UTC] No.43652354{3}[source]▶
mything/ will make the OS resolve various hosts: mything., mything.local (mDNS), mything.whateverdomainyourhomenetworkuses. (which may be what you wanted).

If you want to be sure, use mything./ : the . at the end makes sure no further domains are appended during DNS lookup, and the / makes the browser try to access to resource without Googling it.