Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of TLD for internal network

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:39:50 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 19/12/17 13:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one
> > hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing,
> > because it guarantees that every hostname is globally unique (so if I
> > copy/paste a URL to you, it goes the same place on your machine as it
> > did mine). On the other hand, I hate the idea of paying some bureaucrat
> > to be able to use my own network.
>
> Which was why I liked Demon as my ISP. They had a customer domain and
> assigned you a name on it. Whether you used it as a host or domain name
> was up to you.
>
> Most ISPs now assume you are a client and don't give you proper internet
> :-(

Zen is fine too. I had to choose a subdomain (prh) in myzen.co.uk, then I 
could define 11 users@××××××××××××.uk. I've only used a few of those, as any 
user names local to my LAN aren't supposed to be visible outside it.

Any time I look round for a new ISP to change to for any reason, I'm only 
ever interested in those that act as a pair of bare wires connecting me and 
mine to the outside world - no interference,* no proxies, transparent or 
otherwise. Just a simple connection.

I forget why I left Demon years ago. I wouldn't touch BT Internet with a 
barge-pole since they got all cosy with Yahoo, and UKFSN went more-or-less 
defunct. Whence Zen today.

* [OT]	What's the difference between intervention and interference? None 
that I can see. One is just more Politically Crass - oops! Correct - than 
the other.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.