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goneri | 2 years ago

.local was assigned by IANA for mDNS/Bonjour https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp...

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mavhc|2 years ago

Except they appear to have done this in 2013, at least 13 years after people were using it for local internal dns

eli|2 years ago

Isn't that the point of reserving something like .internal? So that people don't "borrow" a TLD that could get assigned to something else later?

throw0101d|2 years ago

> Except they appear to have done this in 2013

The first mDNS draft came out in 2001. And as noted RFC 6762 § Appendix G, .local was used by Mac OS 9 for the same purpose as it it was for mDNS: link-local resolution.

denkmoon|2 years ago

So that this doesn't happen again is exactly why the defacto use of .lan should be codified in an RFC.

.local was never reserved for private use, and it got scooped up for mdns. .dev was never reserved for private use, it got gTLD'd and owned by Google who promptly put it on the HSTS preload list.

.internal is nice but it's not what people are already using.