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Re: [DNSOP] DNS names for local networks - not only home residental networks ...

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Mon, 04 September 2017 19:30 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] DNS names for local networks - not only home residental networks ...
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> On 3 Sep 2017, at 22:51, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
> On 3 Sep 2017, at 14:38, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Why would anyone tell you that “.local” would conflict when you were supposed
>> to register a name *before* using it.
> 
> Because some vendors gave bad advice in their documentation, particularly in examples.
> 
>> If you are doing AD correctly you should be able to register you machines wherever
>> they connect to the Internet and that requires a public registration.
> 
> And that is what Microsoft has suggested in all their documentation for many years.

However, Microsoft did encourage their customers to use .local names for Active Directory domains for quite a long time - see for example this link to the documentation for Windows Small Business Server 2003. It isn't fair to only blame MS customers for choosing .local domains.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc747455(v=ws.10).aspx

Tony.
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