[aklug] Re: internal domain name recommendation

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Mon Jun 07 2010 - 08:21:26 AKDT

On Sunday 06 June 2010, Jeremy Austin elucidated thus:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Damien <damien@linuxninjas.tv> wrote:
> > This is not a Linux or windows problem. This is a DNS problem. How
> > do you access yourwebsite.com out on the net if your internal dns
> > points to a local server?
>
> I run local (intranet) services that I don't *want* available on the
> Internet, even to not putting them into my public-facing DNS zones. I
> started with .local originally in the pre-OS X era, regretted it when
> Mac OS X was released, but worked around it and am still using .local
> as of 2010. Windows has never had any problems resolving .local via
> DNS, afaict.

Isn't .localdomain exactly for this purpose?

j

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