RE: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

[Laurence Perkins]

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:50 PM
>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?
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>On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:12 PM Laurence Perkins <lperkins@×××××××.net> wrote:
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>> >>-----Original Message-----
>> >>From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
>> >>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 11:41 AM
>> >>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>> >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?
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>> >>On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 12:28 PM Laurence Perkins <lperkins@×××××××.net> wrote:
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>> >>> The standard does not prohibit the names being resolvable via unicast DNS as well, though it does recommend that you make sure the two resolution paths return consistent results since most systems will take the first response they get.
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>> >>If a host queries DNS first, and obtains an NXDOMAIN from an authoritative name server, I'm not sure most would even check mDNS.  I think I had that issue back when I was using .local before I heard of zeroconfig.
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>> Right.  If you have .local names registered with your DNS, but not resolvable via mDNS...
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>No, I'm talking about the opposite situation.  I'm talking about you have foo.local resolvable via mDNS, but not DNS - then there is a chance you won't be able to access the host.  Basically having an authoritative nameserver for .local may disable mDNS on your network for some devices.
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>Rich
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Yeah, I can see that also being a possibility, and it's likely to be annoying to deal with since different clients can have different preferred resolver orders and may or may not take the authoritative part seriously and any program hard-coded to use mDNS will work fine, so there could be a big wad of inconsistent behaviour that obscures what's going on.



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