There are many DNS names options. Which one do you use?

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    According to IETF, you should only use .intranet, .internal, .private, .corp, .home or .lan for your private network ( RFC 6762 Appendix G ). Using other TLDs might cause issues in the future, especially since new gTLDs seems to show up every few months or so, which can collide with the TLD you use for your local network.

    • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A problem with the .lan TLD (maybe others from this list) is that web browsers do not consider it a TLD when you type it in the address bar, and only show you the option to search for that term in your default search engine. You have to explicitly type https:// before it, to have the option to visit the URL.

      E.g type example.com in the address bar -> pressing Enter triggers going to https://example.com. Type example.lan -> pressing Enter triggers a search for example.lan using your default search engine.

      • distantorigin@kbin.cafe
        5·
        1 year ago

        Little known trick–or perhaps everyone knows it and is quietly laughing behind my back–with Chromium browsers and Firefox (and maybe Safari, I’m not sure), you can add a slash to the end of an address and it will bypass the search.

        So, for example, my router on the LAN goes by the hostname “pfsense”. I can then type pfsense.lan/ into my address bar and it will bring me to the web UI, no HTTP/s needed.

      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Interesting, so this is the latest recommendation? Which is probably why I haven’t seen it in the wild yet, at least in my circles.

        Which means they probably going to cash out release gTLDs for .intranet, .internal, .private, .corp, .home and .lan soon…

  • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    You shouldn’t use .local for your manually defined local domain names if you plan to ever use mdns/avahi/bonjour/zeroconf.

      • Perhyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hopefully AVM gets to register fritz.box then, because they’ve been setting up their customers with that as their internal domain for ages…

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    For local DNS home.arpa is I think what we’re ‘supposed’ to use, but I use .lan

    Only use another domain name if you actually have it registered, like myname.net or something. As a bonus you can then get a wildcard letsencrypt SSL cert for easy HTTPS.

      • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Because of interference with existing domains. Say you set a computer on your network to mypc.google.com, that won’t work because the DNS server will lookup google.com as an external domain.

  • nsaobserverbot@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    fritz.box for the machines themselves because Fritz!BOX (although handed out by Pi-Hole),but .lan for anything going over the local proxy towards the same machine for TLS.

    Some machines use my custom domain name instead of .lan, if they need to be accessible from outside. So these last ones go directly over the local proxy internally, but automatically over CloudFlare Tunnel and Authentik when not at home. The proxy being Caddy.

  • preciouspupp@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    There’s a draft rfc that defines “.home.arpa” as an internal. It looks stupid and totally misses the point, but works.