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What top-level domain do you use in your local network? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've wanted to install pihole so I can access my machines via DNS, currently I have names for my machines in my /etc/hosts files across some of my machines, but that means that I have to copy the configuration to each machine independently which is not ideal.

I've seen some popular options for top-level domain in local environments are *.box or *.local.

I would like to use something more original and just wanted to know what you guys use to give me some ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never used DNS in my local network (because it's additional burden to support, so I tried to avoid it), but couple of month ago when I needed several internal web-sites on standard http port, I've just came up with "localdomain."

Yep, it's non-standard too, but probability of it's usage of gTLD is lowest among all other variants because of it's usage in Unix world and how non-pretty it is :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If DNS is a burden to support you're doing it wrong. I set it up once and haven't touched it since. Everything new that gets added "just works".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not like DNS is a huge burden by itself, it's just approach of avoiding creation of critical services unless they become necessary. Because infrastructure around them is a burden: they needs additional firewall rules on middleboxes, monitoring, redundancy, IaC, backups etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't fully follow that but like I said, sounds like you're doing it wrong if you have to alter firewall rules every time you add a host because of DNS issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I am not speaking about maintainance of DNS zones (that's easy), but about maintanance of authoritative DNS servers.