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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Sorry. I chose .local and I'm sticking to it.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I switched from .local to .honk and I'm never looking back.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

I don’t get it.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago
[–] chrisbit@leminal.space 1 points 3 months ago

It's also second only to .com in terms of query volume in ICANN's Magnitude statistics with 980 mil vs .internal's 60 mil. Not sure if that makes it a de facto standard, but it's close.

[–] xcjs@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was using .local, but it ran into too many conflicts with an mDNS service I host and vice versa. I switched to .lan, but I'm certainly not going to switch to .internal unless another conflict surfaces.

I've also developed a host-monitoring solution that uses mDNS, so I'm not about to break my own software. 😅

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't really have a use at home for mDNS. None that I can think of, anyway. Pretty sure I was using it before MDNS was a thing.

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Accessing printers? Resolving hostnames of internal hosts? I can't imagine having a lan without mDNS

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 3 months ago

Oh. Internal hosts, I just setup on my own DNS.. No need for that. Printer, can't say I've ever had a problem.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

.internal takes to long to type

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I went with .home and so far the problems are within reason

[–] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm using .home and have not had any issues. Would you mind sharing what problems you've come across so I know what to expect?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

The main problem I have is waking up in the middle of the night worrying that ICANN pulled some more stupid corrupt bullshit that only makes networking worse and breaks my config.

Just look elsewhere in this thread: someone thinks that using .honk as a joke is safe. But what about .horse? .baby? .barefoot? .cool? (I stopped scrolling through the list at this point but you can see how arbitrary and idiotic things have become.)

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I still haven't heard a convincing argument to not use .local and I see no reason to stop.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mainly conflicts with mDNS. However it's shitty IMHO that the mDNS spec snarfed a domain already in widespread use, should have used .mDNS or similar.

[–] xcjs@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

That I agree with. Microsoft drafted the recommendation to use it for local networks, and Apple ignored it or co-opted it for mDNS.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

.local is already used by mDNS/Zeroconf.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

My main issue was it doesn’t play well with Macs.