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WorldMaker on May 17, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'

Though the interesting answer to why Microsoft now has to advise against .local is that RFC 6762 reserved it as a special-case for Multicast DNS (mDNS fka Bonjour and a bunch of other names).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

JdeBP on May 18, 2018 [–]

.local actually has two conflicts.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/dns-use-domain-names-that-you-own.html

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