.localhost Domains

You might check out .internal instead which was recently approved [1] for local use.

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

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.

RFC 8375 seems to have approved it specifically to use in Home Networking Control Protocol, though it also states "it is not intended that the use of 'home.arpa.' be restricted solely to networks where HNCP is deployed. Rather, 'home.arpa.' is intended to be the correct domain for uses like the one described for '.home' in [RFC7788]: local name service in residential homenets."

The OpenWrt wiki on Homenet suggests the project might be dead: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/zeroconfig/hncp_...

Anyone familiar with HNCP? Are there any concerns of conflicts if HNCP becomes "a thing"? I have to say, .home.arpa doesn't exactly roll of the tongue like .internal. Some macOS users seem to have issues with .home.arpa too: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1bu62do/homearpa_is_...

> I have to say, .home.arpa doesn't exactly roll of the tongue like .internal.

In my native language (Finnish) it's even worse, or better, depending on personal preference - it translates directly to .mildew.lottery-ticket.

It would be more like .mold.ticket

Thanks, I always mix up mold and mildew. However, "arpa" is specifically a lottery ticket, whereas there are tickets for concerts, tickets to ride, tickets in Jira etc...