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Date:      Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:45:33 +0800 (WST)
From:      David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
To:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfing@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND Configuration
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0706291942300.1029@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:17:59 -0700
> Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> > Pick a "fake domain" for yourself (such as home.lan or something that
> > won't be used on the Internet; a fake TLD is the way to go).
>
> FWIW, '.local' is preferred by many these days. Example:
> machine.mydomain.local

Off-topic, but this is a bad idea if you intend to run mDNS, also known as
Rendezvous/Bonjour (Rendejour!) or Avahi, on your network. See
http://www.avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal for more.

David Adam
zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au



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