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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

Everything at my house has a TLD named after the road I live on (a founding father last name). Everything at my offsite at my dads house uses TLD named after the road he lives on (a woman's first name).

It's both arbitrary and practical. A number systems exist at both such as proxmox. truenas. pihole. plex. So it's a good way to tell them appart without having to differentiate them in the domain name.