[aklug] Re: internal domain name recommendation

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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
Of Ryan Mooney Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 10:51 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: [aklug] internal domain name recommendation

> I am setting up a Linux server as a test to expand my current client
> recommendations to include Linux servers.=20
> With Windows servers, it is recomended that you use internal domain
> names such as domainname.local. All the documentation I look at for
> Linux shows domain names as .com, or .net =20
> In the Windows world using a .com or .net as your network domain name
> can cause problems with DNS (unless you use sub-domains such as
> company.domainname.com). Is this the case with Linux servers? Should
> I keep using .local (or other variant) or is it safe (and more
> reliable) to use a .net (or similar) domain naming? Thank you, =20
> Ryan Mooney
>=20

Linux doesn't care about your domain.

The only problem with .local is that avahi-daemon likes to use .local as a =
pseudo-tld, which can cause some issues with Samba in a .local active direc=
tory domain.

I think most of those issues have been resolved, but I still purge avahi in=
 a business environment.

James Zuelow
Network Specialist
City and Borough of Juneau MIS
(907) 586-0236=
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Received on Fri Jun 4 11:01:09 2010