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*.local is a great example of why not to use a domain that just 'sounds good' as an internal dns suffix, as it is used by bonjour/avahi[1]

I had to rename an entire corporate network once because the previous folks thought .local "looked good". It cause constant issues with clients that had bonjour or avahi running.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local



Wait, why doesnt apple just fix its software? .local isn't reserved. Seems like picking some arbitrary fix over another isn't helping matters.


Well, .local would be reserved if the mDNS draft, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdn... , ever progressed to an actual RFC. It is already a de-facto standard, with several implementations.


Because in 99.9999% of use cases it won't break.

That, and mDNS already being used as a psuedo-standard with things like Avahi.


Here's my hand up admitting I made that mistake back in the day. At least it was only our staging server cluster, and not an entire network...




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